Searching Google Contacts - Suggested Enhancement or Dumb User?

[chuck]

I use gmail to keep track of all of my contacts. Many contacts are
people who I do not really know. For example, I have the email
address of a lady who has a condo in Las Vegas that I occasionally
rent. So I have her email listed in my google contacts and then I
enter into the "Notes" section, "Las Vegas Condo Rental." When I
search my contacts, I should be able to type, "Vegas," and find her
name\email address. Can I search my contacts this way? If not, I'd
love it for Google to add that to the enhancement list for a future
update.

I am pretty new to Gmail, so if I'm missing something, please set me
straight!

Thanks,
Chuck

[Zack (Doc)]

Some people have reported they have this functionality in the older
version of GMail, so perhaps it's coming to the newer version. I've
never tried it myself.

--
Terry Pratchett - "A marriage is always made up of two people who are
prepared to swear that only the other one snores."

[Herchu]

On Jul 10, 1:18 am, chuck <charles.bad...@thomsonreuters.com> wrote:
>  I use gmail to keep track of all of my contacts.  Many contacts are
> people who I do not really know.  For example, I have the email
> address of a lady who has a condo in Las Vegas that I occasionally
> rent.  So I have her email listed in my google contacts and then I
> enter into the "Notes" section, "Las Vegas Condo Rental."  When I
> search my contacts, I should be able to type, "Vegas," and find her
> name\email address.  Can I search my contacts this way?  If not, I'd
> love it for Google to add that to the enhancement list for a future
> update.

No, you can't.
The current (aka, "new") version of GMail only lets you search the
contents of the Name field. Other fields, like Notes, Company,
Address,
etc. stay out of the lookup. You may want to switch to the "old"
version
to do the search and come back to the new version thereafter. It does
work in the older version.
You should suggest Google to implement that feature back as there are
many people (including me) that miss it.
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=suggest

-H.

[chuck]

thanks everybody. i went ahead and suggested that feature to Google.