

This will NOT find items containing abcBOBdef, or 123bob. Items containing bob, bobbin bobby, BOBBY, BoBby, or any other combination of uppercase and lowercase letters. Operators should be typed in uppercase letters. In addition to these examples, you can use AND, NOT, OR,, =, and other operators to refine your search. The following table shows you some examples of searches you might find useful. You can find the search box at the top of the screen whether you are using the Simplified Ribbon or the Classic Ribbon. Alternatively, the Outlook ribbon will change to show the Search tab and you use any of the options in the Refine group to refine your search results. Based on your preference, you can use Advanced Search by clicking the filter button on the right side of the search box. To use the built-in filters, click in the Search box. Outlook provides you with a number of built-in search filters. To limit your search results to emails from an email address, type in the search box. When you type in an email address, for example Outlook returns all email messages that contain that email address anywhere in the subject, message body, or many types of attachments as well as messages from that email address. anywhere in the sender name, subject, message body, or attachments. For example, if you search for "project" either with or without quotes, Outlook will return all messages with the word project, projects, projector, projecting, etc. When you type words into the Search box, Outlook scans both email messages and many types of attachments for that word or phrase. Searching for "365" will NOT find messages that contain "Office365". Also, the search treats numbers that are connected to words (no spaces between the word and the number) as part of the word. So if you type ray into the Search box, Outlook will return messages that contain ray, Ray, Raymond, and rays, but not disarray or tray. NOTE: Outlook uses what's called prefix matching when searching. The most basic way to search is to simply type in a word or phrase.

In addition to searching for different words and phrases, you can use various operators, punctuation and keywords to narrow your search results. You can type a number of phrases in the Search box at the top of the Outlook message list.
