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

[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

 

[Nabeel Moeen]

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

 

[Phillip Pi]

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

 

[Brian Tillman]

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

Both the simple and the Advanced Find do that for me with OL 2003.

For example, "apple juice".

Just put "apple juice" in the "Look for" box on the Find tool.

Another example, "base" and not baseball.

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).

 

[Diane Poremsky]

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.

 

[Phillip Pi]

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.

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