Wildcard searching of Address Book

[bxb7668]

I have Outlook 2002. I'm looking for an entry in the Global Address
Book that contains the string "Bailey". There is stuff before and
after "Bailey" but I don't know what it is. We don't have any
Advanced Search capability. Is there a way to use wildcards in the
Find dialog?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have Outlook 2002. I'm looking for an entry in the Global Address
Book that contains the string "Bailey". There is stuff before and
after "Bailey" but I don't know what it is. We don't have any
Advanced Search capability. Is there a way to use wildcards in the
Find dialog?

Put "bailey" on the To line of a new message and press CTRL-K (Check Names).
All addresses in the GAL containing that string should appear.

 

[bxb7668]

Put "bailey" on the To line of a new message and press CTRL-K (Check Names).
All addresses in the GAL containing that string should appear.

Thank you. That is almost there. That finds all of the user whose
first or last name begins with "bailey" but not an entry such as "DL
BCA BAILEY ALL" (which is the one I was trying to find). It is a
distribution list.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Thank you. That is almost there. That finds all of the user whose
first or last name begins with "bailey" but not an entry such as "DL
BCA BAILEY ALL" (which is the one I was trying to find). It is a
distribution list.

I didn't test DLs, but for me, it finds all Contacts that have the string
anywhere in any field of the contact items.

 

[bxb7668]

I didn't test DLs, but for me, it finds all Contacts that have the string
anywhere in any field of the contact items.

Thanks Brian. I suspect that the problem is with the way my company
has the Exchange server configured. Oh well.

Brian Bygland