Are you looking for someone you know or do some business with a particular establishment but you do not know their phone number? Or maybe you need to find a telephone number in a hurry? Well, all you need to do is grab a phone book and look at the white pages directory where the alphabetical lists of residential and business telephone numbers are found alongside their street or postal address. Technically, every telephone subscriber of a particular geographical area is registered in a particular directory so finding them would be easy.

But there are those who dont actually know how to use the white pages directory and sometimes become frustrated to the point of scratch-your-eyes frustrated! With the thousands of phone numbers listed, who wouldnt feel this way? This could be more maddening if you dont have the full name of the person you are searching for. This is because a number of people opt to have their telephone number recorded using their first name or their initials.

But utilizing the phone books white pages directory is quite a simple process. Plus all the worlds phone books have the same format for their white pages so the same procedure can be followed anywhere. All you really need is to remember the name of the person or establishment you are searching for and sing out your alphabets until you see the first letter of the name then search down the page for the complete name. Bear in mind that the names are listed in the book alphabetically, so it will basically give you an easy access to the persons phone number and postal address. All information in the phone book is also obtainable from the phone company. That is why if you do stumble on a phone number that is not being used anymore; a recording will automatically inform you of the new number. This is if (and thats a big If) nothing has changed during the past 90 days.

But in cases where you have the persons phone number but not their address, you can use the white pages directory online to search it out. It can even be availed of if you are trying to find a business since a number of them wants to improve their visibility. If you really think about it, searching several phone numbers online would be much quicker than calling up directory assistance or manually looking them up in a phone book. With the several lookup tools and search features in most online white pages, these sites are really excellent in searching for that long lost friend, family member or old flame.

When looking for people and businesses in the Annuaire pages blanches, patience would be a real virtue. You really need to stay positive for the length of the search. But as soon as you become acquainted and comfortable with using the phone book proficiently, then finding the number or street address would be easy.