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Search facility in Outlook Express 6
I want to look for any email in a particular folder where the text contains
both of the words "primary" and "report". If I use Shift F3 (with, of course, the 'Search all text ...' option ticked) searching for 'primary report' [without the quotes], OE seems to find only the 2-word string. I've tried separating the 2 words with AND or &, but that does not seem to have the desired effect. Can someone advise me? -- Lindsay Graham Canberra, Australia (currently in Chateau-du-Loir, France) ----------------------------------- Please reply via the newsgroup/mailing list, so that all may benefit from the discussion. |
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Search facility in Outlook Express 6
OE isn't that smart. The search can only look for one character string.
One way around that is to use Edit, Find, Message (Ctrl+Shift+F), select the desired folder and search for the first term. Then select all (Ctrl-A) and right click and select Copy to a folder that you have previously created that is empty. Then search that folder for the second term. -- Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm "Lindsay Graham" wrote in message ... I want to look for any email in a particular folder where the text contains both of the words "primary" and "report". If I use Shift F3 (with, of course, the 'Search all text ...' option ticked) searching for 'primary report' [without the quotes], OE seems to find only the 2-word string. I've tried separating the 2 words with AND or &, but that does not seem to have the desired effect. Can someone advise me? -- Lindsay Graham Canberra, Australia (currently in Chateau-du-Loir, France) ----------------------------------- Please reply via the newsgroup/mailing list, so that all may benefit from the discussion. |
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Search facility in Outlook Express 6
"Lindsay Graham" wrote in message
... I want to look for any email in a particular folder where the text contains both of the words "primary" and "report". If I use Shift F3 (with, of course, the 'Search all text ...' option ticked) searching for 'primary report' [without the quotes], OE seems to find only the 2-word string. I've tried separating the 2 words with AND or &, but that does not seem to have the desired effect. Can someone advise me? You have to do two searches. Read how I answered this in April of this year. http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...f6fc95551e8bb7 HTH Robert Aldwinckle --- |
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