Using multiple "words" in an advance find in Outlook

[Guest]

I use MS Outlook 2002 and I am trying to use mutliple words either in an
inclusion and/or exclusion basis (i.e "and" / "or"), in the advance find
field "Search for the words" but I do not believe it is not rending the
proper result.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Try entering this in the box for the text:

red or green or blue

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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

 

[Guest]

That did not help, I believe using the word "or" or "and" has the effect of
selecting all emails since the word "or" and "and" appears in most emails.

Pat

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Doesn't work that way here. Can you give us an example from your own data to try?

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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

 

[Guest]

Sue, that's easy, I am using the words "Quest" and "Large", since I only want
emails with an individual's name of Large and Quest because that's the
company he works for. Just using Large will give me too many results since
large is a common word and I don't just want emails with Quest since I deal
with many people from Quest. Hopefully that helps.
Thanks, Pat

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

So, you want to use and, not or. Put this in Advanced Find:

large and quest

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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