You never need to enter a full name to search on, because by default, Synergetic assumes that you have typed in all or part of the beginning of the string of characters.Anchor
For example, searching in the Surname field for a student starting with the letters Li returns:
...
- Barnes, Domenic
- Bates, Adele
- Best, Amy
- Bowes, Charles
- Weston, Julie
- Weekes, Craig
- and so on.