Hi Peter, If you have a currently selected customer and search for a patient the system will automatically display the list of patients owned by the current customer when you click on the Select button in the Patient-Information Workspace (or any patient workspace). If you want to do a search independent from the current customer you need to tick the All Patients checkbox. This checkbox is automatically selected if you have not selected a customer. All search functions support partial and wildcard searches. If you just enter some text the search will look for any name that starts with that text. You can also enter wildcards like *smith* to find any name that has smith in it. We will also extend the searching later to include phonetic searches i.e smith and smyth etc. Hope this helps. Regards Tony