Searching by Text inside Contact's Note Field

Hi,
I have been a Windows Phone user all along. I am interested in switching over to Nokia.
I am looking for one basic requirement of being able to search through the Contacts Field for any text.
I use MS Outlook and store lot of text in the Notes Field of each of my Contact and I need to be easily able to bring up all contacts that have a particular word or string inside the notes area. I can easily do this in Windows phone. But so far no nokia user has been able to tell me for sure if this is possible, if so how.
Thanks in advance for your advise.

Suggestion:
6000 contacts - That's a lot. Before you get too carried away, I would add delimiters such as:
[note]" & contentsof_existingnote & "[/note]" & return, AND
[category]" & _category & "[/category]" & return
You could then add other functions to your AddressBook note field. I do this regularly and have added;
[addressee2] to add a roomates, significant other, or spouse that wanted to keep her maiden name and want to formerly include on an invitation or xmas card.
Mr. John Smith
Dr. Karen Jones, M.D. [addressee2, roomate, significant other]
1234 W. 56th Street
Anytown, ST, Zip
[spouse] spouse; review your contact list and greet them with "How is your wife Karen?"
[xmasprefix] mainly to add "Mr. & Mrs." to your contacts
[xmasfamily] include a personal touch; "and family"
Others, [iphotolinks], [envelopegraphic], [envelopeAttn_]
All kinds of possibilities here.
G4 powerbook   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

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    I have been a Windows Phone user all along. I am interested in switching over to Nokia.
    I am looking for one basic requirement of being able to search through the Contacts Field for any text.
    I use MS Outlook and store lot of text in the Notes Field inside each of my Contact and I need to be easily able to bring up all contacts that have a particular word or string inside the notes area. I can easily do this in Windows phone. But so far no nokia user has been able to tell me for sure if this is possible, if so how.
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