Find - Begins With??

[Norbert Wells]

This may be a really amateur question... but for the life of me I can't figure out how to do a find on a text field for records that "begin with" or "start with" a specific text string whether it be part of the first word or the entire first word. I am using FM Pro 4.0 and wonder why FileMaker Inc. didn't include a way to quickly and easily perform this seemingly simple task.

Any thoughts? (I have already searched FileMakers Tech Info Library to no avail.)

[dabombsmom]

just type the text that it starts with. I often use shortcuts in fields, e.g. if I want to find John Smith, typing "jo sm" will do nicely.