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Outlook has a very powerful filter available to use with Advanced Find, Views, Automatic Formatting or Search Folders. You can add conditions on one or more of Filter's tabs and the conditions are joined with AND. In many fields you can use AND or OR operators within the same criteria:
Name contains Sue or Bill
Some fields will need a colon for OR:
Subject contains outlook, IMAP
You can't do is OR criteria together, even on the Advanced
tab.
Name contains Sue
OR
Email address contains @microsoft.com
These filters will work on Views, Advanced Find, Automatic
Formatting and in Ol2003, with Search Folders. Some of the
tricks, like the comma one, work in Find too.
Updated Saturday January 02 2010