Little Known Feature of the GroupWise Client and Addressing

While composing an email in GroupWise, I started thinking about the best way to find one for the To: field. By default, as you start typing GroupWise auto-completes with the first matching address from your Name Completion Search Order preferences. The problem is that if you aren't sure of the spelling you need it is a hit or miss proposition. Most IDEs for programming have a nice auto-complete feature that gives you a list of options if you hit either Control-Enter or Control-Space. They show you a popup list of matching words to complete what you have already typed. On a lark, I hit Control-Enter and up popped a nice list of names that matched what I had already typed. It matched on the characters in the beginning First Name and Last Name fields. It does not match on characters that occur in the middle of the name parts. In the following pictures, I typed in 'te' and you will see what popped up when I hit Control-Enter. This makes it much easier to find an email from your address books than doing a search for it.

A full list of shortcuts can be found in the documentation - http://www.novell.com/documentation/gw8/gw8_userwin/data/b9ps9oq.html

Typing in 'te'

Results of Contact Search After Hitting Ctrl-Enter