I need to use File->Search in Outlook

[Guest]

I need to be able to search a .pst file for email which contains a set of
words, either in the email text or in attachments, and then I need to be able
to copy the found messages to another .pst file.

Ordinary Find in Outlook doesn't search in attachments, only message bodies.
(Good, but not sufficient.)

When I try to use Advanced Find in Outlook, if I select "Look for files" it
changes the "Where" to "Inbox", so I can't search the content of the
attachments in the .pst file.

If I go to Word, and use the File -> Search menu, I can include Outlook
folders in the search, and it will actually find Outlook attachments by
content of the attachment, and I can view the messages individually using an
Outlook message window. But I can't copy the message to another .pst file.

The help files imply that File->Search should be available in Outlook, but I
can find no way (including customization) to make it available:

So, my question: how can I search a personal folder (.pst file) for Outlook
messages that contain a word or series of words in the message body or in
attachments in a way that I can efficiently copy a result list (that may
contain hundreds of messages) into a new .pst file?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Advanced Find doesn't search inside attachments. See http://www.slipstick.com/addins/search.htm for utilities that can add that capability to Outlook.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers