I agree that the simple find should search company. One way to quickly
search for contacts by company is to open up the contacts window, change to
"Company contains" above the list, and type the company. This should be
pretty quick.
Dan
On 11/6/2000 1:58 PM, "David Leitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I might add that searching in the contacts file could possibly be more
> inclusive by default.
>
> Often times I search by company name rather than surname. This requires an
> extended search. The way Palm Desktop works, company names are found in the
> same search as surnames. The Palm way, which used to be the Claris way, is
> definitely more functional.
>
> -- David Leitch Ord Minnett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> on 7/11/00 6:50 am, Allen Watson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> I agree that the speed of the extended search needs improvement. Workarounds
>> I've found and used:
>>
>> 1. Don't keep everything in the Entourage database file. Archive to a
>> HyperCard or FileMaker database using John Carlsen's utilities. FMP searches
>> things a lot faster than any mail client ever will. I try to keep my current
>> mail database under 2000 messages. These archives let you reply, forward,
>> resend and so on.
>>
>> 2. Archive messages to mbx files by dragging folders, and then use BBEDit
>> (or BBEdit Lite) to do a multi-file search; very fast. (Okay if all you want
>> to do is find, copy and read info. Not so great for replying, etc.)
>>
>> On or near 11/6/2000 8:52 AM, Dylan Drazen at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> observed:
>>
>>> Why is the extended search feature in Entourage so painfully slow? A
>>> TidBITS editor announced last week that he switched back to Eudora mainly
>>> because of this.
>>>
>>> http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=06173
>>>
>>> Is it because of the way Entourage (and OE) stores email in its
>>> "proprietary" database, and not as text files? Eudora stores each mailbox
>>> as a separate text file in the Mac OS level. Does Microsoft plan to make
>>> the search feature faster? I use it a lot, and with over 25,000 messages in
>>> my database, it certainly takes too long.
>
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