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description: Enable enhanced lookups in Classic so users can sort, filter, and page through their results. Enhanced lookups are available only for specific objects.
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# Enable Enhanced Lookups

Enable enhanced lookups in Classic so users can sort, filter, and page through their results. Enhanced lookups are available only for specific objects.

### Required Editions

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d32809e62 ">To enable enhanced lookups:</td>

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A custom object that’s associated with a custom tab is searchable by default, even if users don’t add the tab for display.

1. From Setup, enter Search Settings in the Quick Find box, then select **Search Settings**.
2. In the Lookup Settings area, select the objects for which you want to enable enhanced lookup functionality. If the option to enable enhanced lookup functionality isn’t there, then enhanced lookups aren’t available for the object.
3. Click **Save**.

After enabling enhanced lookups, specify which fields users can use to filter lookup search results. If you don't specify any fields, your users can't use filters in enhanced lookup dialogs. Enhanced lookups are available only for specific objects. Fields configured to use enhanced lookups don’t support single character searches (except for searches in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai) or wildcards at the beginning of search terms.

If you enable enhanced lookups in your org, it’s also enabled for the Visualforce pages you create. However, enhanced fields aren’t available for Salesforce sites. To change an enhanced lookup back to a regular lookup, disable the object as an enhanced lookup from your Lookup Settings.

![Warning](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-ai-search-264-0-0-production-enus/6a28c936-3b68-4186-bc09-7ab905f33ef3/images/icon_warning.png)

Warning If you change the owner of a record, the original owner may lose rights to see the record depending on the configuration. However, in Classic the original owner can still see the record in their recently viewed items in the lookup search results even if they don’t have rights. For sensitive data, turn off Salesforce Classic and use Lightning Experience instead.

#### See Also

- [Specify Lookup Search Filter Fields](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ai.search_enhanced_lookup_specify_filters.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "After enabling enhanced lookups, specify which fields users can use to filter lookup search results. If you don't specify any fields, your users can't use filters in enhanced lookup dialogs. Enhanced lookups are available only for specific objects.")
- [Searchable Fields by Object in Salesforce Classic](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ai.search_fields_cex.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Your search results for a particular object depend on two factors: the type of search and the searchable fields for that object. Salesforce Classic has several search types—sidebar, advanced, global, and lookup.— Each type searches a unique set of fields for each object. Learn which search types and searchable fields are available for a given object.")
- [Standard and Enhanced Lookups in Salesforce Classic](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ai.search_lookupdialog.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Salesforce objects often include lookup fields that allow you to associate two records together in a relationship. For example, a contact record includes an Account lookup field that associates the contact with its account. Lookup fields appear with the search icon on record edit pages. Clicking the icon opens a lookup search dialog that allows you to search for the record that you want to associate with the record you’re editing. There are two main types of lookups: standard and enhanced.")
- [Turn Off Salesforce Classic for Your Org](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?language=en_US&id=sf.lex_turn_off_classic.htm&type=5)