There are numerous ways to look up Dartmouth community member’s phone number or email address. The one I use the most for phone numbers uses Firefox and its built-in “Smart Keywords” feature.
Setting it up is really easy, no special plug-ins are required.
First load the Dartmouth People Finder web page. (click the link to open in a new window)
Now ctrl-click or right-click the search field.
In the contextual menu, select “Add a keyword for this search…”
Firefox will now ask you to give the bookmark a name, a keyword, and where to store it. I’m calling mine, “Dartmouth People Finder” and I’m using the keyword, “dnd”. When you’ve filled yours in, click the Add or OK button.
Now it is time for the magic.
In the location bar of your Firefox window, type “dnd” (or whatever you used for your keyword) and the name of the person you want to lookup.
Hit enter and boom… you’ll be brought directly to the results page of your lookup.
The DND People Finder supports fuzzy name matching. So you can enter as much or as little of the name as you want. If there is more than one result, it will return all the matches.
That’s all there is to it. This same technique can also be used for many other sites that you frequently search such as IMDb, Amazon, Wikipedia, etc.
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