Wildcard search in Address Book (GAL)
In the Address Book of Outlook, there is still only partial name search possible, but no Wildcard search. Please add wildcard search options.
Richard
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Benoit Lamarche
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Like way too many feature of Office, this is a function that has not been updated since the inception of the Exchange client bundled with Windows 95. The dialog box that is invoked when a user wishes to search and browse the GAL has not changed. I vote that serious review is made of these antiquated features.
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Andrew Terentyev
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There is NO reason why it should still be impossible to search the GAL in-app.
Outlook needs some of the same innovative love being given to other Microsoft O365 apps. Outlook has and for the foreseeable future will continue to have a place as a Desktop application, because people need the ability to work while disconnected from the internet.
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Julian King
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This is 2020, why doesn't this exist.
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Kenny Lee
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Yes, please!
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Matt
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Leave it up to Microsoft to leave out one of the most basic search functionalities to date. This is a huge problem for me as we have more than 5,000 employees and hundreds of obscure groups. Makes it nearly impossible to find anything in the GAL without wildcards
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DH
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I think this is the same (or very similar) to my issue (https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_outlook-mso_win10-mso_o365b/outlook-global-address-book-search/a609c2bf-c8e4-4203-a0ed-e57c7d246cbe?tm=1576145713883); the global address list search functionality has always been awful.
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Peter Hookey
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In the Address Book of Outlook, there is still only partial name search possible, but no Wildcard search. Please add wildcard search options.
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Lucas Kempken
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The problem is we cannot search in our Global Adresslist for parts of names. So if we have a Distribution List with the Name: DB.Company.SD we cannot search just for "SD" and find that Distribution List because Outlook only searches for the beginning of the Name String.
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MT
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discontinue this product at all
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Anonymous
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Please add this. It would save me a lot of time every day. Especially searching for DLs where you cannot remember the full name. Or the company starts every DL with the company name .....
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Anonymous
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Wildcard search within the Room Finder or GAL for booking purposes would be incredibly helpful also.
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Anonymous
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Add search for company names
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Alberto
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Most e-mail clients do operate the above function proposing a large selection of possible matches out of the names, addresses, nicknames, etc... contained in the address book .
OUTLOOK completes the names...
a) only IF you already have sent a message to that address
b) searching the initials of the above e-mail address ONLYFor that reason at present I'm NOT using Outlook BUT a f.o.c. Exchange clone of Outlook that performs the above function ( and all the other funtions as well).
I really cannot understand why MS Outlook missed to add such a simple tool.
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Tree
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You should add wildcard searches. So You can do search for john doe using the following wildcard:
*doe* should find johndoe@microsoft.com and along with all the other doe such as janedoe@microsoft.com too. -
G. B. Christensen
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When you start typing an email address in "To field" or clicking at the To / CC / BCC, a list of the addresses containing the letters entered should be automatically displayed.
This feature should also be implemented in the Search function. -
Stoom
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Look at the Company Contacts addin from wizardsoft. It has a powerful full text search feature. Much more useful than the default global address list and one fan also add other address books and "views" on the contact/user data. https://wizardsoft.nl/outlookwizard/outlookwizard.html
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Anonymous
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Please provide the ability to be able to use outlook's full search functionality when you are within a 'new email > to button > search box'. When you hit the 'to' button in a new email, the search dialog box only searches for peoples names even when using advance options. Often I want to search for part of their email address.
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Janson
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In Outlook 2016 for Windows Desktop, auto-complete does not resolve if you first of all type the users last name rather than first name.
It would be very useful if you can resolve by and name in the display name, as Outlook on the Web does.12
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In Outlook 2016 for Windows Desktop, auto-complete does not resolve if you first of all type the users last name rather than first name.
It would be very useful if you can resolve by any name in the display name, as Outlook on the Web does.12
