It seems that the aliases are of so little use.  If clients could search on them in Donor Central, then that would be GREAT, and they would be very useful (as it is now, we need to manipulate grantee names so that clients can find some of them in DC, as many are known by a name other than their legal name).  Also would be nice if the aliases were searched when we are looking for a profile in FIMS, without having to pull a data grid -for the same reason: many organizations go by an acronym, nickname, etc. and that is what people know it by - not necessarily by their IRS name.  The alias option is there, it is just not very useful.