How do I search specific words/phrases/terms in Outlook 2003's e-mails?

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Phillip Pi

Hello.

How do I search specific words/phrases/terms in Outlook 2003's e-mails?
For example, "apple juice". Another example, "base" and not baseball. I
tried using quotation marks like on Google, but that didn't seem to
work. I was unable to find anything about this in its help.

Thank you in advance. :)
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Phillip Pi
Senior Software Quality Assurance Analyst
ISP/Symantec Online Services, Consumer Business Unit
Symantec Corporation
www.symantec.com
 
Phillip,

This may be something you might have already evaluated, but may I suggest
that you install Windows Desktop search which integrates with Outlook really
well.
And its search capabilities are far superior to the default Outlook search.

Regards,
Nabeel
 
Bummer that I need a third party to do this. I was surprised Outlook
2003 didn't have this type of searching. Do I assume this is the Desktop
Search?
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/default.mspx
.... If so, then does it use a lot of memory and resources? I have a slow
machine and 1 GB of RAM, and do heavy multitasking especially with
VMware v5.5.4.


Phillip,

This may be something you might have already evaluated, but may I suggest
that you install Windows Desktop search which integrates with Outlook really
well.
And its search capabilities are far superior to the default Outlook search.

Regards,
Nabeel
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Phillip Pi
Senior Software Quality Assurance Analyst
ISP/Symantec Online Services, Consumer Business Unit
Symantec Corporation
www.symantec.com
 
Phillip Pi said:
How do I search specific words/phrases/terms in Outlook 2003's
e-mails?
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Both the simple and the Advanced Find do that for me with OL 2003.
For example, "apple juice".
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Just put "apple juice" in the "Look for" box on the Find tool.
Another example, "base" and not baseball.
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Searcing is by substring. If you search for "base", it WILL find "baseball"
as well. If it's likely that a word preceeds or follows the string you
want, look for "base " or " base ", although the former will find "offbase"
as well, but not "baseball", and the latter won't find "base" at the end of
a sentence (i.e., followed by a period).
 
done properly, you can do it with outlook's tools... WDS may be faster but
is not necessary.

for base search for " base " with space before and after.
 
done properly, you can do it with outlook's tools... WDS may be faster
but is not necessary.

for base search for " base " with space before and after.
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Thanks. That seems to work. :)
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Phillip Pi
Senior Software Quality Assurance Analyst
ISP/Symantec Online Services, Consumer Business Unit
Symantec Corporation
www.symantec.com
 
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