Finding hyphenated names

[Leah Tofte-Dorr]

I am trying to figure out why the second name in a hyphenated last name does not show up in a find. For example, Tofte-Dorr does not show up in a find for Dorr. Is there a way that I could modify the find to include the hyphenated ones?

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

[mz123]

Hey!

If you put an asterick (*) before the search criteria (it might help to put one after, too... but i'm not 100% sure) you are looking for, you should get that name as a result.

Hope that helps :

[Ender]

Yes, use the asterisk. Note that in FM7/8 this is not required as a hyphen is a valid separator.

[comment]

The down-side of this is that *dorr will also find matadorr, torreadorr and Isidorr.

Another option is to search in a calculation field where hyphens are substituted with spaces.

[Leah Tofte-Dorr]

Thanks so much for your quick responses.

For now the * works and I will try the calculation field to separate the names.

Thanks again.