Outllok Rule Creation based on Greater Than Numbers...

[Not Now Please]

Program: Outlook 2003

He Everyone,
My boss has requested the creation of a particular type of rule that has me
stumped. He receives many quote requests per day but we are only interested
in them if they are BELOW a certain quantity, i.e. we would be interested in
fulfilling an order for less than 1000 but not more than that. I have tried
filtering based on "Specific words in the body" with entries such as
">1000," (hoping Outlook would know to treat the entry as a number above
1000, also tried "1,***," (hoping it would recognize as a number
w/wildcards), also "1000," "1000," etc, etc, etc... Of course, all the
filter sees are the actual numbers/symbols entered. In other words it will
block ">1000" but not 1000, or it will block "1,***" but not 1000.

This is what I have in mind: Check messages when they arrive?From
People...?With specific words in the body?>1000(greater than 1000 sans text
in parenthesis)?Move it to the specified folder... and I could take it from
here

So the non-vervbose question boils down to: Is there a way to get the
Outllok 2003 Rules and Alerts to filter emails based on a "greater than"
quantity of actual numbers in the email?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Fingers crossed,

Dan

 

[Brian Tillman]

So the non-vervbose question boils down to: Is there a way to get the
Outllok 2003 Rules and Alerts to filter emails based on a "greater
than" quantity of actual numbers in the email?

Outlook's Rules and Alerts engine cannot perform numeric comparisons of any
kind.

 

[Not Now Please]

Thanks for the confirmation Brian. Take Care.

Outlook's Rules and Alerts engine cannot perform numeric comparisons of
any kind.