Advanced find folder path OL2000

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George Wilson

I am using Outlook 2000 on a windows 2000 system. Within
my personal folders I have nested folders at least 4
levels deep and hundreds of folders. When I do an advanced
find I have no problem finding items in the search window
but I have no way to go directly to that folder. The find
window shows the folder name but not the whole tree where
the folder exists. I can easily open the item by double
clicking but I need an easy way to open the folder or
identify the path. I tried marking as unread to find it
easier, but do not have any way to just open that folder.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
TIA
George
 
I had the same problem and found a way to find any Outlook (2000)
folder if you know the start of the folder name: expand the folder
list into all levels and then type the name. It still is a clumsy way
around a clumsy bug, but it's the best I found.

Here it is:
- In the folder tree, click on the highest level folder in which you
want to 'search'.
- Type '*' (on the numeric keyboard) to expand the folder tree into
all levels.
- Now, type the first characters of the folder name to make outlook
'jump' to it. (Don't wait too long between two characters, or outlook
will restart a search.)

Details:
- Afterwards, all (hundreds of) folders remain expanded; a way to
collapse the tree again is to collapse the 'top' folder (luckily,
Outlook 2000 will 'forget' which folders were open before the
'expand').
- What didn't work for me was marking the message as 'unread', because
only the 'parent' folder displayed in bold, not the 'grand parents'.
- The folder I had lost turned out to be 'moved' into a folder
(probably an inaccurate mouse click was interpreted a drag-and-drop).

Good luck,
Jedigoo
 
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