FIND BOX & LOOKUP
At the 'Find' box you may enter a simple lookup request - yet powerful search facilities are also available to you - so most address lookups can be done here.
Enter your lookup request in the 'Find' box, then click the Lookup button - or simply press [Enter]. If your lookup request includes a postcode this is detected, and Pocket Postcode will automatically carry out a lookup for you without the need to click Lookup.
Please note: Due to it's relatively small size Pocket Postcode does not contain organisation or property information but allows you to provide this information for any address which you lookup.
For the fastest results, with minimum typing, enter some information
- such as building name or number followed by a postcode. Pocket
Postcode will then return your property information along with the
matching postcode level street, locality, town and county information.
Entering a postcode such as
| B1 1AA | Returns a postcode level address | |
| 282,B11 1AA | Returns a postcode level address complete with the house number of 282 you specified | |
| AFD Software Ltd, IM8 1RF | Returns a postcode level address complete with the name of 'AFD Software Ltd' as you specified in the Organisation field |
Clicking on the down arrow to the right of the Lookup box allows you to select any of your last 25 Lookups. After selecting one make any modifications necessary, and then click on the Lookup button.
Where you are not sure of the postcode, Pocket Postcode can easily
find addresses from other delivery information - the street and town,
and most STD codes.
Valid entries are:
| Entry | Example | |
| Postcode only | B13 9JD | |
| Postcode with Property Information or Organisation Details (this will simply return information you provide - the program does not contain organisation details) | 282, B11 1AA | |
| AFD Software Ltd, IM8 1RF | ||
| Blyth Hall Farm, B42 2AF | ||
| STD Code | 0121 | |
| Street, STD Code | Gosta Green,0121 | |
| Terrace Road, 0121 | ||
| Street, Town | Barford Street, Birmingham | |
| Bull Ring Centre, Birmingham |
Click the Lookup Button or press the [Enter] key and Pocket Postcode will look up the request you've entered. You will see from the examples above, that Pocket Postcode is quite tolerant of how spaces are used and whether capital or lower case letters are used.
Please note that Pocket Postcode returns a maximum of 300 records from a single lookup. If 300 records are returned you will need to refine your lookup.
Pocket Postcode will detect postcodes which have been re-coded and will convert them to their replacement postcode before looking up and displaying the results.
Pocket Postcode also provides a set of lookup directives so that you can force a lookup to look for data in fields you specify rather than the defaults to allow quick searching straight from the lookup box.
In the first half of the text typed into the lookup box (before the comma) the following directives can be used:
| Directive | Example | Purpose | |
| O= | O=Royal Bank | Forces text typed to be returned in the Organisation field - otherwise Pocket Postcode guesses if it is an organisation or a property for postcode lookups and assumes it's a street for other lookups | |
| P= | P=High Street | Forces text typed to be returned in the Property field - otherwise Pocket Postcode guesses if it is an organisation or a property for postcode lookups and assumes it's a street for other lookups | |
| S= | S=Barford Street | Forces lookup as a Street Address - the default for non-Postcode searches, but required if you want to search with a street and a postcode |
In the second half of the text typed into the lookup box (after the comma) the following directives can be used:
Directive Example Purpose T= T=BIRMINGHAM Forces text typed to be looked up in the town field (default when postcode/STD Code not typed) C= C=WARWICKSHIRE Forces text typed to be looked up in the county field rather than the town field S= S=0121 Forces an STD Code (default when detected as such) P= P=B1 1AA Forces a Postcode (default when detected as such)
Examples of valid lookups are listed in the Lookup history (click the down arrow to the right of the Find box) when Pocket Postcode is first run. As you perform lookups yourself these entries are overwritten by your own recent lookup history.
The examples help illustrate the types of lookups available in Pocket Postcode - including most of the examples quoted in this section of the manual.
The Edit menu offers a 'Skip to Next Outcode' option. This suppresses the display of more than one record within each outcode and town and can dramatically reduce the number of records to be examined in some types of Lookup or Search.
NOTE: An 'Outcode' is defined by the part of the postcode before the space, eg 'B1' is the outcode of 'B1 1AA'