Sorting contacts by company instead of name?

I have had a few times where I need to contact a person from a certain company. I could not remember the name of the person but knew the company name. Seeing that I have a lot of contacts on my phone it takes forever to scroll through the list and click on every person I don't recognize to see if they work for the company. Is there a way to view by company or search by company so I don't waste a lot of time scrolling through my contacts? What would be great as well is some sort of grouping of contacts ie business,personal,family etc. Is there a way to do this?

There is no way to search anything other than name in the Contacts app (v3.0 will correct that, this summer). Contacts groups can be set up in Address Book on a Mac, and they are maintained on the iPhone, but that can't be done in Windows.
But, in the meantime, check out these App Store apps:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=300891442&mt=8
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=286543435&mt=8

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Tony
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Use the Search tool. It's the magnifying glass on the keyboard.
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