Search Contacts and People

Quick reference

• 00:04 Whether you have just a handful, like 14 contacts on your screen, or
• 00:09 1,400 contacts, it's important to know how to search for them.
• 00:13 On the Contacts, on the left-hand panel, notice first of all that
• 00:17 when I float my mouse on this icon, it comes up with Search People.
• 00:22 You need to know that people and contacts, those two words go hand in hand.
• 00:26 So Microsoft is switching from the word context to the word people that there's
• 00:30 some holdovers.
• 00:30 It doesn't matter.
• 00:31 I'm going to go ahead and click right here where it says Search People.
• 00:35 Search the word Bob, and all of a sudden Bob shows up.
• 00:39 How about I search my name, Andy?
• 00:42 And we get two options that show up.
• 00:44 What about just And, anyone who has the word And?
• 00:48 There now I have three options, Al Anderson came up, see?
• 00:52 All right, so that's kind of handy right there on the icon,
• 00:55 the people icon on the left navigation way.
• 00:58 Let's go to the next level.
• 01:00 I click on Contacts, and over on the right-hand side, we have Search People.
• 01:07 This time, I'll type Lon for Lonny.
• 01:10 And there's Lonnie, kind of nice.
• 01:12 You can just click in there.
• 01:14 Notice also on the left-hand panel, keep in mind in the Current View,
• 01:18 I'm on Business Card.
• 01:20 I could click People as well.
• 01:22 Regardless of what I click,
• 01:24 it always has an alphabet over here on the left-hand side.
• 01:27 So I can just click any one of these and
• 01:29 it will take me directly to that letter of the alphabet.
• 01:33 How about the E's and F's?
• 01:35 And there we go, G was my closest one?
• 01:37 How about the A's?
• 01:39 The A_Team group.
• 01:40 So that's kind of a nice way to search as well, in fact, that's my favorite way.
• 01:45 And now we have one more area right up on top, the search box up on the title bar.
• 01:50 When I click there, this time, I'm going to type Adobe.
• 01:54 And when I hit Enter, it's searching current folder, well, where am I?
• 01:58 I'm in Contacts, on my Contacts folder.
• 02:01 When I hit Enter on Adobe, there it is, it just found it, all right?
• 02:05 It's just searching that folder.
• 02:07 I could change at any time to search Subfolders,
• 02:11 All Contact Items, or All Outlook Items.
• 02:15 So when I click that one, there's emails, contacts, calendar appointments,
• 02:20 it all shows up.
• 02:21 All right, I'm going to clear that search by hitting the X.
• 02:25 There's one more little trick in the background, and that is on email.
• 02:27 So I'll hit Ctrl+1 to activate my email.
• 02:30 And right in here on my email, under the View ribbon,
• 02:35 over here on the right-hand side, we have the To-Do Bar, and notice the word People.
• 02:42 So from my email screen, I could have a people search bar on the right-hand side.
• 02:49 So I don't have to jump into context just to search for someone,
• 02:53 I could search right here.
• 02:55 I'll go ahead and search for the word and, A-N-D.
• 02:58 And there's all my people that have some version of the word And in their name.
• 03:03 Kind of handy to not have to jump back and forth on the screen.
• 03:07 Okay, all that to say, coming back to my people icon, my Contacts group,
• 03:13 and my Contacts folder, this is where you will mainly stay.
• 03:17 You'll mainly reside in here looking for people, searching for people.
• 03:21 Just kind of handy to know the trick about the email.

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