Outlook 2010 – searching part of a phone number

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Hi, people!
happy 2013!
In Outlook 2010 I need to search Contacts with part of phone numbers to check with all people in home, and know who called who.
Normally I put the last 4 digits in search field and that’s it.

My surprise is to figure out that Contacts in Outlook 2010 only find this occurrence if it is an hyphen before the 4 digits.
So, if I search 4321 in Contacts, Outlook find 9876-4321 but didn’t find 987654321. This is annoying, because now we have 9 digits to cellphones, and no hyphen is inserted when I fill out the phone numbers. So I have many contacts with and without hyphen inside the phone number.

Maybe someone of you knows a turnaround to make this search efficient? What I am doing? Exporting all stuff as PDF, and then search in PDF document. Then I can find everything I need. But it’s a waste of time, isn’t it?

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To do this on Outlook 2010 ;

1. Open Advanced Find (keyboard shortcut CTRL+SHIFT+F)
2. Select the Advanced tab
3. Press Field and select a field to search, for example: Frequently-used fields-> Mobile Phone
4. Set Condition: to “Contains”
5. Set Value: to “4321”
6. Press “Add to List”
7. Press “Find Now”

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Mr Nathan – thanks for your answer.

1- MsO in portuguese has another shortcut Ctrl+Shift+L (Advanced Find)
2. ok.
3. Houston, we have a Problem! I can only insert a field WITH a value inside. That means, I need to insert 4 or 5 fields with the value in the criterion list, and only for this part of the phone number. I can save this search task as well. And if I have a new phone number to search, I need to change the value in all fields selected (home, work, mobile etc -phone), one by one. Something annoying, don’t you think?

Again: I’m looking for a way to search in all phone numbers (home, work, mobile and so one…) a part of a phone number.
The only way I found, is export all MsO contact list to a PDF file and then open this file and search what I need.

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