You can enable a more thorough search by enabling Search All Text in Each Message... If you need a more complete search using all text fields, select Search All Text in Each Message from
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Using Find
Outlook's Find is a simple yet powerful tool For simple searches on any Outlook folder,
it does a pretty good job of finding your messages and other Outlook items
Because Find searches all the basic fields in an item and you can't control the fields it searches, it's often slow going on large folders with thousands of items or when you're searching many folders
When Find returns results, you must leave the results in the window until you are finished with them or you'll have to run the search again Fortunately, many times the search remains cached in memory and it takes only seconds to update it
Outlook's Find is a simple search tool with limited capabilities Click the Find button on the toolbar or choose Tools, Find, Find to open the Find pane Enter a name, word, or phrase and click Find Now to begin your search (see Figure 15.1)
Figure 15.1 Use Find for simple searches
The default settings search only the To, From, and Subject fields You can enable a more thorough search by enabling Search All Text in Each Message
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instances of your search words, so messages from the billing department will also be included in the search results
If you need a more complete search using all text fields, select Search All Text in Each Message from the Options menu at the end of the Find pane (see Figure 15.2) This is a slower, more thorough search of messages and includes message bodies and the note field
in other Outlook items
Figure 15.2 Use the Options menu to select Search All Text in Each Message, Save
Search As Search Folder, or Advanced Find
The Search In menu has four predefined search locations: the current folder, All Mail Folders, Mail I Received, or Mail I Sent It also lists recent folders searched and enables you to select the folders you want to search, as shown in Figure 15.3
Figure 15.3 The Search In menu includes a list of recently searched folders along with the currently selected folder and your mail folders You can search for any
Outlook item type from any folder
Find can search any Outlook folder type for your keywords and finds all items matching the keywords Add a check beside each folder you want to search When Search
Subfolders is selected, you only need to select the top-level folders and the subfolders
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Figure 15.4 Find can search all folder types for your search words
The Options menu has a new item, Save Search As Search Folder, which is available only for email folders (refer to Figure 15.2) Select this option and enter a name for the Search Folder if you'd like to reuse the search later If you included other Outlook folders
in your search, only mail folders will be saved in the Search Folder To use the search later, open the Search Folder
When you're done with the search results, click the Clear button so that you can see contents of your folder You'll also clear the search results when you switch folders After using Find, you can move the found items to a new folder, but you can't use drag and drop Because of limitations of the viewer controls, you must use Move to Folder Select the item or items, right-click, and then choose Move to Folder
Use Find to search your Contacts folder, using a Category as a
keyword Then Select All and choose Send New Message to Contact
from the Actions menu A new message form loads with the selected
contacts populating the To field
For example, if you wanted to send your old clients a message, you
would use Find to show all contacts who you assigned to the Inactive
Client category and then use Send New Message to send them a
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Task: Use Find
For this task, we're going to find all Outlook items that contain the name Becky If the Find pane is not already showing, click the Find button on the Standard toolbar to enable
it
1 Enter Becky in the Search For field
2 Select Choose Folders from Search In menu (refer to Figure 15.3)
3 Check all the folders; also check the box to Search Subfolders (refer to Figure 15.4)
4 Select Search All Text in Each Message from the Options menu (refer to Figure 15.2)
Choose Find Now to find every item that contains the word Becky If your message store
is large, it might take a minute for the search to complete Because this search used the option to search all text, it finds every item where Becky is used in any text field
Use the Find a Contact command, located on the Standard toolbar, to
find a contact when you're in any folder The search uses the Name,
E-mail Address, and Company fields Type a full or partial name, eE-mail
address, or company name and press the Enter key The Choose
Contact dialog opens with a list of matching contacts
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