find people, spaces, messages, files, and devices using the desktop and mobile app

If your administrator adds external contacts, these contacts appear in search results.

The Webex App also searches contacts in Microsoft Outlook on Windows or your local address book on Mac, any search results are included in the lists.

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In the app header, click Search button Search, meet, and call, enter specific text, or any word in the name of a: Webex user, an email or video address for a person or a room device, or a space. Scroll through the results list and select who you're searching for.

You can also make a call from the results list. After you enter a name, email address, or video address, just click Enter to make the call.

If you're set up to call numbers, you can:

  • Copy and paste a phone number and press Enter to place a call.

  • Search for phone numbers by entering at least two digits for an extension search or three digits for a phone number using starts with and ends with searches.

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Select from Messages, Files, People, and Spaces to refine your search. To help you find a space, you can see the timestamp for the last message in that space.

Type In:, From:, or With: directly in the search area, and then pick from the list to refine your search.

  • In:—enter the name of the space and choose a space from the list.

  • From:—enter a person's name and select the person from the list.

  • With:—enter a person's name and select the person from the list. The results include spaces you are in with this person. The results are ordered by the number of people in the space, starting with the smallest. For multiple spaces with the same number of people, these spaces are then ordered by the spaces with the most recent message.

You can use the In: and From: filters together. You can only use the With: filter on its own. You can also call someone directly in your results list.

If the search isn't refined by using the In: , From:, or With: filters, you'll only see search results from your most recently viewed spaces. To view more results scroll back through your spaces list.

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Click Cancel to exit from your search.

The Webex App also searches contacts in your local address book, any search results are included in the People list.

Tap Search Search button and enter the text you're searching for.

You can sort through the results using the lists of People, Spaces, Messages, Files, or Devices that match your text.

If you're set up to call numbers, you can:

  • Copy and paste a phone number and tap Audio Call button to place a call.

  • Search for phone numbers by entering at least two digits for an extension search or three digits for a phone number using starts with and ends with searches.

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Click Search Search button in the app header.

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Enter the text you're searching for.

Select from People, Spaces, Messages or Files, to easily sort through the results.

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Click Cancel to exit from your search.