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Tip 1098: Searching for messages from a contact

When you needed to find messages and other Outlook items associated with a contact in older versions of Outlook, you could use the Activities page on the contact see everything linked to that contact. However, Activities was removed from Outlook 2013. While the People Pane replaces some of the functionality of Activities, it is limited to the last 200 items (but that can be … [Read more...] about Tip 1098: Searching for messages from a contact

Tip 1087: Find Messages from Sender

In Eudora, I can hold down the Alt button and click on a particular e-mail. That will bring all e-mails from the same sender into one list. My skill testing question is - is there a way to do this in Outlook?Outlook doesn't have anything quite that simple, but you can right-click on a message and choose Find Related > Messages From Sender to begin a simple Instant Search … [Read more...] about Tip 1087: Find Messages from Sender

Tip 943: Search for Email Sent To or From a Domain

An Outlook user asked how to create a search for a messages sent to or from a domain (eg "@company.com") and include not only email sent to and from himself, but also messages that he was CC'd on.There are three options which will work to varying degrees:1. A search folder. Choose the 'To or From' predefined search folder and type the domain (microsoft.com format will … [Read more...] about Tip 943: Search for Email Sent To or From a Domain

Tip 896: Searching with the OR operator (and other search syntax)

In Outlook 2003 (and earlier), using the "Find" command its possible to search on multiple items such as "Johnson, Smith, Jones" and the comma acts as the OR condition.Windows 8 does not include Outlook 2013 items in it's search index. If using Outlook 2010 and older, Outlook items may be listed in Search again in, in the Windows Explorer search ribbon.While the comma … [Read more...] about Tip 896: Searching with the OR operator (and other search syntax)

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