To find a contact, click the Find Contacts icon from the main screen.
![](images/find-button.png)
Once clicked, enter in the search field the name of the contact
![](images/find-field.png)
Then, click the one of buttons under the search field that suits
the kind of search you need.
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Quick Find - will have the software quickly
find the contacts from all the contacts in the database and will automatically
have those searched contacts as currently selected contacts
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Quick Find from Selected - will search only
for contacts from the currently selected contacts
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Omit - this option is different from the
other options in a way that instead of having the searched contacts as
currently selected contacts, it will OMIT them from the database. Note
that omitting means temporarily deleting them from the currently selected
contacts. NOT DELETING THEM totally.
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Expand - once you search for contacts using
the Find Contacts button, by default it will have the searched contacts as the
currently selected contacts. This means that if you display the contacts in a
list, the searched contacts will only be the one displayed. Using the EXPAND
button while searching for contacts, the searched contacts WILL BE ADDED to
the currently selected contacts on screen.
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Find From Clipboard - will search for
contacts based on what you have in your clipboard
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Full Find - in full find, you can have
several options to filter the contacts that you want from all the contacts in
your database.
Once FULL FIND is clicked, you will be directed to the FULL
FIND SCREEN where all information about the contact is displayed.
![](images/full-find-screen.png)
To use FULL FIND:
1. Click the Clear Fields
button to clear out all the fields from the previous Full Find search.
2. Enter on particular contact information fields that you want
to filter the search for contacts. For example, if you want to search for all
the contacts that is from Texas, enter TX on the State field.
3.
Once you have set your contacts to search, you will then have to select how to
search for them. At the upper right part of the FULL FIND screen, there are
several Find button as shown in the figure below.
![](images/full-find-buttons.png)
Find
From All If
you want to find contacts from all the contacts in your database
Find From Selected If you want
to find contacts from the currently selected contacts on screen
Extend To
Selected If
you want to add the searched contacts to the currently selected contacts on
screen
Omit From Selected
If you want to omit the searched contacts