Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007 Inside Out

Searching for Contacts

If you’re like most Outlook 2007 users, your Contacts folder will grow to contain a lot of contact entries—typically, too many to allow you to browse through the folder when you need to quickly find a particular contact. You’re also likely to encounter situations in which, for example, you need to locate contact information but can’t remember the person’s last name. Fortunately, Outlook 2007 makes it easy to locate contact data, providing two convenient ways to search contacts: Instant Search and the Search Address Books box on the Standard toolbar.

Instant Search works the same way across all of the Outlook 2007 folders, so to locate a contact, begin typing the contact’s name in the Search Contacts box. If you click the ...