Customize Search Criteria

Changing What You Search By

Office Accelerator provides the power to search virtually any field in the phone book using the Simple, Extended or Advanced search view.

Simple Search View

The Simple Search view provides a drop down option that includes very commonly used fields such as last name, first name and company.

The Extended Search view provides additional onscreen and customizable search criteria options. The Extended Search screen can be customized to include custom fields as well as standard fields.

Advanced Search View

The Advanced Search view provides additional onscreen and customizable search criteria. options as well as advanced searching methods such as starting with, ending with, containing, "OR" searching, and multi-select category searches. The Extended Search screen can be customized to include custom fields as well as standard fields.

You may change the fields to search by on all search views in Accelerator as follows:

Changing the Simple View Search Criteria

The |Simple View| search criteria may be changed by selecting alternate search criteria from the drop down menu as shown below.

In this example we have selected Last,First which can be used to search for contacts by Last and First name using a comma delimiter. For example, if we were searching for Stuart Clements, we might use the following parameters Clem, St. Notice that it is not necessary to type the full name of the contact.

Changing the Extended and Advanced View Search Criteria

From the |Preferences| menu within the Accelerator phone book select |Customize Search Criteria|. The following screen will appear.
From the drop down box, select the specific fields you would like to search by:
After selecting the appropriate fields, click the |Done| button.
Your new search criteria will display in the Extended and Advanced search views.