To
look up a contact, fill in one or more of the text fields in the main
PocketKnife window. In most cases, typing the first few letters of a
contact’s last name will be sufficient to locate your contact. To further
limit the number of matching contacts, type all or part of a first name,
company name, or both. Alternatively, if you only remember the contact’s
first name, type in the beginning of the first name. To select from a list
of all contacts at a company, type in the company name and leave the other
fields blank.
For example, to look up Roy G. Bivens, the president of Spectrum Communications, you would probably have to type no more than biv in the Last Name field. To assure a match, you could add r to the First Name field, and spec to the Company Name. If several contacts meet the search criteria, PocketKnife lists all the matches.
Click on Folders... to tell PocketKnife which folders to search. In a single pass PocketKnife can search through all your contact folders, including public and shared folders on an Exchange server.
By the way, while PocketKnife is checking for first names, it also searches for matching middle names. Thus, if the last name is f and the first name is scott, the program will find Scott Foresman and F. Scott Fitzgerald, assuming that both are in your contacts folder.
The order of the search fields may be easily changed using the keyboard or drag and drop.