Go to Options group under Search Tab; Click the Search Tools button; In the drop down list, click the Advanced Find command item.
Use Advanced Find
- Click in the search box.
- On the Search tab, click Search Tools > Advanced Find.
- Click the Advanced tab.
- Under Define more criteria, click the Field button and then click All Mail Fields.
- Start by choosing a field, then choose a condition and a value to test.
If you want to perform a generic search which looks at all fields except within attachments, then you can specify the attachment field with the NOT statement and specify the words to exclude; keywords NOT attachment:"keywords"
When you've been invited to a meeting, you get a special e-mail message that offers these buttons: Accept: Outlook automatically adds the meeting to your schedule and creates a new e-mail message to the person who organized the meeting, telling that person your decision.
3. Click “Search” in the sidebar to display the pane with Instant Search options. Click to remove the tick from “Show Prompt to enable Instant Search” in the Sources section. Click “OK" and close the Outlook program.
In
Outlook's Search field,
you can also perform a
Boolean search.
Search query example
- The word “invoice” in either the subject OR the body,
- AND.
- Has an attachment,
- AND.
- NOT be from Amazon,
- AND.
- Should search all mail folders.
Here's how you can change the setting in Outlook 2013 to search All Mailboxes.
- Open Outlook.
- Click File > Options.
- Click the Search tab to display Search Options.
If Outlook is not searching all of your email correctly, you can rebuild the Outlook search index to fix this:
- Click on File then Options.
- Select Search on the left then click Indexing Options.
- Click Advanced.
- Click the Rebuild button.
Search Outlook Items (Email) in Outlook 2013 on a PC
- Open Outlook 2013. If Outlook is open and you are logged in, continue to Step 2. Single click on the shortcut icon on the tool bar.
- Click the Search Tab. Zoom: Click the Search Tab.
- Type Your Search Criteria. Click the magnifying glass to begin your search.
- Your Search Results will be Displayed Below.
Find Old Emails/Messages in Outlook App
- Open Outlook 2016/2013/2010 and click Folder tab, and then select New Search Folder.
- Now, scroll to Organizing Mail in the opened tab and select Old Mail.
- On clicking Ok, you'll see that a new folder has been created and added to the Navigation Pane.
What is indexing? In simple terms, it's a catalog that's built from terms found in email messages. The catalog is similar to an index for a reference book, but instead of manually searching for the term in the book's index, you're search for it electronically by entering the term in a Outlook search box.
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- For a start, go to “File” menu and select “Options”.
- Then locate and click on “Customize Ribbon”.
- You will see a vast variety of commands, tabs and ribbons listed in dialog boxes.
- Next locate and pitch on “Search” in the left side.
- Finally click “OK' to save the customization.
Limit Search Results
- Click the Windows "Start" button, select "All Programs" and choose Microsoft Outlook 2007.
- Click the "Tools" menu at the top of the window.
- Click the "Make searches faster by limiting the number of results shown" check box.
To do so, right-click any of the tabs in the ribbon, and then select “Customize the Ribbon” once again. Change the “Main Tabs” dropdown to “All Tabs.” Scroll down to “Search Tools,” uncheck “Search,” and then click “OK.” Now, whenever you click in the Search box, a second Search tab won't appear.
Use the Advanced Find Box
- Navigate to the Search tab in Outlook.
- Select Advanced Find from the "Search Tools" menu.
- Enter keywords in the "Search for words" field.
- Select an option from the "in" menu.
- Enter an address in the From or To field to find messages only sent from or to a particular person.
Email service providers such as Outlook interpret HTML code in different ways. Outlook uses Microsoft Word to render HTML/CSS. This can cause emails to display differently in Outlook.
The only way to permanently adjust the size of the text in the reading pane is to adjust the display scaling or zooming the reading pane. There is no way to set a permanent zoom level in the Outlook reading pane. You may need to set the scaling for Outlook if you are using a high DPI display on Win 10.
When “Search” tab pops up, click on the “Search Tools” icon to drop down and then select “Search Options.” “Search” on the left side of the Outlook Options should be highlighted. Once there, uncheck the last item in this window (“Show most relevant search results on top”) and click OK. And voila!
Outlook 365 for Windows is getting a new Search bar which combines many existing search and other options right on top of the title bar. It's now available to Office 365 Insiders and will gradually roll out to other Office 365 .
