How To Get Rules To Look For Whole Words In Subject Field

[Guest]

Hi

Though I know how to create a rule that looks for certain words in the
subject field, how can I tell it to look for the whole word only, and not for
an occurence of the word within another word?

For example;

I have a rule that looks for the word "ant" in the subject field of incoming
emails, but it allows words containing the word "ant", such as "important",
"giant", "grant", and so on.

I do not want this, but rather I want it to look for the word "ant" as a
whole word, not as part of a word.

How would I do this?

Many thanks in advance.

 

[F. H. Muffman]

Though I know how to create a rule that looks for certain words in the
subject field, how can I tell it to look for the whole word only, and not
for
an occurence of the word within another word?

For example;

I have a rule that looks for the word "ant" in the subject field of
incoming
emails, but it allows words containing the word "ant", such as
"important",
"giant", "grant", and so on.

I do not want this, but rather I want it to look for the word "ant" as a
whole word, not as part of a word.

How would I do this?

" ant "

 

[Rich/rerat]

Popey,
Have you tried <spacebar>ant<spacebar>, when you list the word you are
trying to use for your rule?

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Hi

Though I know how to create a rule that looks for certain words in the
subject field, how can I tell it to look for the whole word only, and not
for
an occurence of the word within another word?

For example;

I have a rule that looks for the word "ant" in the subject field of incoming
emails, but it allows words containing the word "ant", such as "important",
"giant", "grant", and so on.

I do not want this, but rather I want it to look for the word "ant" as a
whole word, not as part of a word.

How would I do this?

Many thanks in advance.

 

[Guest]

Hi F.H

Many thanks for your reply, but your suggestion did not work. When I did as
you suggested, the word "ant" was not recognised at all and ended up in the
spam folder.

 

[Guest]

Hi Rich/rerat

Many thanks for your reply, but your suggestion did not work. When I did as
you suggested, the word " ant " was not recognised at all and ended up in the
spam folder.

 

[F. H. Muffman]

Many thanks for your reply, but your suggestion did not work. When I did
as
you suggested, the word "ant" was not recognised at all and ended up in
the
spam folder.

Messages going to spam aren't affected by Rules. Before Rules are ever
applied to a message, Outlook decides if the message should be put in the
Junk E-mail folder. If it should, then it isn't going to run rules against
that message. If it shouldn't, rule processing proceeds as designed.

Find a way to make sure the messages aren't going to Junk E-mail, and then
the rule will affect the message. Either turn down the settings or add the
senders to your safe lists.

 

[Guest]

Has anyone solved this issue yet? I have tried the suggestions posted here
and none work. Either they still find the key word contained in other words,
or they do not find the key word at all. I have the word "cialis" on my key
word list. The filter deleted an email with the word "specialists" in the
subject line. I have tried <sp>word<sp>, ' word ', and " word " and no luck
yet.

 

[F. H. Muffman]

Has anyone solved this issue yet? I have tried the suggestions posted here
and none work. Either they still find the key word contained in other
words,
or they do not find the key word at all. I have the word "cialis" on my
key
word list. The filter deleted an email with the word "specialists" in the
subject line. I have tried <sp>word<sp>, ' word ', and " word " and no
luck
yet.

So, your rule right now says (more or less):

Apply this rule after the message arrives
with _cialis_ in the subject
flag message for Follow up Today

I want to be 100% sure that the underscores on cialis extend before and
after the word. It should be pretty obvious. Note that I didn't *type* the
underscores in the dialog box, I simply hit the space bar, type my word and
hit the space bar again and then hit Add.

I set up the rule as above (except with _acc_ in the subject) and, sure
enough, it doesn't flag a message with the subject New Account Information,
which according to what you're saying, it *should*.

What version of Outlook are you running?