dialer sucks. not able to type name of contact when dialing

[Floods7]

You guys know how in wm u could type the persons name with the numbers to spell their name? Like if u wanted to call a contact named "max" u would key in 629. You can't do that in wp7 and its really slowing me down. Why would they leave out such a good feature? Or hopefully I just don't know how to turn it on, cause I really like this phone.
Btw, I typed all of this with my new hd7 and it was quick and easy. Browser and keyboard rock!