

Items in which the display name bobby moore is on the Cc in which the e-mail address is on the Cc line. Items whose subject contains the phrase bobby moore. Items that have attachments named presentation.pptx or an attachment that contains presentation.pptx within its contents. You can also use hasattachment:true to get the same results. Note the use of double quotes so that the search results match the exact phrase within the quotes. Items sent from bobby moore where status report appears in the subject line, body, or attachment contents. You can also type from: and then the first few letters of a contact's name and Outlook will suggest a list of contacts for you to select. To search for an exact string, you must use quotation marks. Items containing the exact phrase bob and not the variations such as bobby or bobbin. Items containing bobby, along with all variations listed in the first row of the table, moore, or both. Items containing bobby, along with all variations listed in the first row of the table, but not moore. Note that logical operators such as AND, NOT, and OR must be in uppercase letters. Items containing both bobby and moore, but not necessarily in that order. Items containing bob, along with all of the variations listed in the previous row, or moore, along with any other words that contain moore, but not necessarily in that order. This will NOT find items containing abcBOBdef, or 123bob. Items containing bob, bobbin bobby, BOBBY, BoBby, or any other combination of uppercase and lowercase letters. Operators should be typed in uppercase letters. In addition to these examples, you can use AND, NOT, OR,, =, and other operators to refine your search. The following table shows you some examples of searches you might find useful. You can find the search box at the top of the screen whether you are using the Simplified Ribbon or the Classic Ribbon. Alternatively, the Outlook ribbon will change to show the Search tab and you use any of the options in the Refine group to refine your search results. Based on your preference, you can use Advanced Search by clicking the filter button on the right side of the search box. To use the built-in filters, click in the Search box. Outlook provides you with a number of built-in search filters. Searching for terms that contain more than one language may return inconsistent results.

If this list doesn’t contain the items you’re searching for, try a more specific search. To keep Outlook running smoothly, only the first 250 search results are returned. Specifying the number itself (123456) won't return any results. If your mailbox is hosted on Exchange 2019 or Exchange Online, strings of numbers starting with a currency (i.e., USD 123456) where online search uses MAPI restrictions (more info here) can only be searched either specifying the currency and the number (USD123456), putting NN in front of the number (NN123456), or currency and the number (USD 123456). If you want to search for 98101, entering 9810 will not return any results. Strings of numbers less than five digits are ignored. Entering “Spring Planning Meeting.” is the same as entering “Spring Planning Meeting.” Punctuation is ignored in the search box. For example, to find an email with the subject Spring Planning Meeting Agenda, search for Spring Planning or Meeting Agenda. When searching for an email by its subject line, the search will be more effective if you search for only a few words in the subject line. To limit your search results to emails from an email address, type in the search box. When you type in an email address, for example Outlook returns all email messages that contain that email address anywhere in the subject, message body, or many types of attachments as well as messages from that email address. anywhere in the sender name, subject, message body, or attachments. For example, if you search for "project" either with or without quotes, Outlook will return all messages with the word project, projects, projector, projecting, etc. When you type words into the Search box, Outlook scans both email messages and many types of attachments for that word or phrase. In addition to suggested phrases, Outlook will also show you suggestions to help you search for messages from some of your most recently emailed contacts. Searching for "365" will NOT find messages that contain "Microsoft365". Also, the search treats numbers that are connected to words (no spaces between the word and the number) as part of the word. So if you type ray into the Search box, Outlook will return messages that contain ray, Ray, Raymond, and rays, but not disarray or tray. Note: Outlook uses what's called prefix matching when searching.
