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Does anybody know if there is a module or a way to modify CIVCRM in order to do more accurate searches.  The reason I ask is, let's say you enter "Jon Allen" into the find contact search field, currently it will bring up every person with a similar name.  This isn't bad if you are unsure of a spelling, but when you are doing a quick look-up it can take lots of time.  Ideally it would be nice to search only by First Name only by Last Name and only by Email.

I would be willing to make the module myself, but I am relatively new to CIVCRM and this must be a frequent problem, so someone must have solved it before this.