Thread: Search within Contacts with wildcard character

Hi,

I am looking for a way to find (filter out) all contacts whose names begins with: EL or: el

I tried Advance-Search and on the advanced I have chosen the the "Full Name" field then the "contains" condition and typed: el*

No match was found although there are at least 5-6 of such.
(Outlook 2003)

What did I do wrong ?

Thanks in advance,
Elm

Elmer, I'm using Excel 2007, but I would think it should work the same in 2003.

Just leave off the asterisk. When I tell it to find all last names that "contain" the letters 'Co' (without the quotes), it returns any and all records that have 'Co' somewhere in the last name.

Get some information from there:

http://dev048.virtualaccord.com/va_c...arch_tips.html