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    Default Trouble finding contacts by Company

    I'm not sure of the proper terminology for this, but I've got my "List by Company, Name" set in my contacts preferences. When I type in a company name, I get nothing. I have to type in the name of the contact to get the company listing. If I can't remember who the contact is, then the only way I can find the company listing is to do a search.

    Is this normal for a 650?

    I used to use Takephone on my 600 to get around this.

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    I bet you are using the built-in application. Are you a heavy phone user? Take a look at TakePhone - it has bunches of search options for searching the contacts database.

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    Quote Originally Posted by benjie View Post
    I bet you are using the built-in application. Are you a heavy phone user? Take a look at TakePhone - it has bunches of search options for searching the contacts database.

    Ben
    Thanks Ben. Yeah, built-in app. If there's no way to make it work, I'll re-install TakePhone as a second choice.

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    Or you could try the built-in Global Find:
    While in contacts, press the Option key and then Shift/Find. Enter the company name.

    Keep in mind this will search everything and returns results listed by application. Takes a moment too, but not long at all.

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    I use TakephOne now, but when I did use the built-in Contacts app, if I had a contact with a company name, I would enter the entire company name in the Last name field of the contact, then in the First name field I would enter the entire name of the person. If you are hotsyncing with the Palm Desktop, this does not make a difference, but when I started hotsyncing with Outlook I could not do that any longer, as Outlook also manages my email on my PC (which would screw up my address book for email). That is when I bought TakephOne and it was a very good move. I don't think you will regret that purchase.
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    I did the global find thing for a while and when I switched to TakePhone, I found it to be better due to its indexing capability. 2Day also integrates with TakePhone in the search thing. Ben
    Honolulu - 2,500 miles west of somewhere in the middle of nowhere, the land of Shakes. Kyoceria 6135, Treo 300, 600, 650, 700p, 700w, Centro & 800W, Touch Pro plus 3 other WM phones...

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