Useless solution - been using the program for over 20 years, this showed up in 2016 version.  The names are sorted alphabetically - in receiving payments, the program wants to "pick" the most recent contact and/or any recent customer with the letter combination in it!  If I am just searching for a customer in the customer list I can only type one or two letters is looking for "horton" I can type "h" and "o" but by the time I type "r" it takes me to names beginning with "r" - this does NOT happen in the vendor list.

in the payments, invoice, and enter bills windows when I type the first letters - in this case "nel" - of a name, a bunch of random names containing the letters are at the top of the list. - see the screen shot. 

everytime there is a new release and /or required update there are so many bugs in the program it is OUTRAGEOUS  I wish the accounting firm we use would offer other options for accounting software.