need advanced Outlook rules help please

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Cheryl Larson

Hello. I need an Outlook rule that looks for two phrases in the body of
a message. I enter the first phrase to look for and then add the
second phrase, it adds it as an OR statement instead of an AND statement.

Is it possible to do this? So it looks for "thistext" AND "thistext"???

Second question: Is it possible (in a rule) to look for a phrase using
a wildcard like an asterisk? For instance, a rule that looks for "FIRST
NAME: M*" in an emailed form??

Thanks
 
Cheryl Larson said:
Hello. I need an Outlook rule that looks for two phrases in the body
of a message. I enter the first phrase to look for and then add the
second phrase, it adds it as an OR statement instead of an AND
statement.
Is it possible to do this? So it looks for "thistext" AND
"thistext"???
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This can be done with multiple rules.
Second question: Is it possible (in a rule) to look for a phrase
using a wildcard like an asterisk? For instance, a rule that looks
for "FIRST NAME: M*" in an emailed form??
Click to expand...

The strings in rules are already wildcards. In other words, if you look for
the string "bat", the rule will find "dingbat", "batwing", "combatant", and
"abattoire" as well. So, specifying a string of "FIRST NAME: M" will do
what you describe.
 
Thanks very much for your response.

Brian said:
This can be done with multiple rules.



The strings in rules are already wildcards. In other words, if you look
for the string "bat", the rule will find "dingbat", "batwing",
"combatant", and "abattoire" as well. So, specifying a string of "FIRST
NAME: M" will do what you describe.
Click to expand...
 
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