how can I search a substring in Outlook emails?

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I need to search a substring - "01-234" so that emails containing "S01-234"
or "T01-234" or just plain "01-234" can be located easily. How can I do
that, please?
 
David Outlook Newbie said:
I need to search a substring - "01-234" so that emails containing "S01-234"
or "T01-234" or just plain "01-234" can be located easily. How can I do
that, please?
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Sorry - I just got Office 2007 which includes Outlook. And yes, I have
tried Advanced Find (control-shift-F) but with trial and errors I found
inconsistent behavior - for example, the system allows me to specify *234 but
it seems to treat ?234 the same way, and I haven't a way to specify a single
character wildcard (I thought "?" would be)...
 
Outlook doesn't support wildcards. Instant search doesn't do substrings -
it does leading searches. I think - is a delimiter (. and : are) , so it
will search for 234 substring but you can't search for "0-234" except using
Advanced find's Advanced tab.

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Thanks! Indeed the Advanced Find (in the Advanced tab) supports "contains"
queries where a substring like "07-186" works. Thanks again.

Diane Poremsky said:
Outlook doesn't support wildcards. Instant search doesn't do substrings -
it does leading searches. I think - is a delimiter (. and : are) , so it
will search for 234 substring but you can't search for "0-234" except using
Advanced find's Advanced tab.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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David Outlook Newbie said:
Sorry - I just got Office 2007 which includes Outlook. And yes, I have
tried Advanced Find (control-shift-F) but with trial and errors I found
inconsistent behavior - for example, the system allows me to specify *234
but
it seems to treat ?234 the same way, and I haven't a way to specify a
single
character wildcard (I thought "?" would be)...
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