Search Examples
When performing an Advanced search, you use different panes depending on the search criteria. The following examples demonstrate which search panes to use for particular types of searches.
• Search for a specific type of attachment. You are looking for a message with a picture attached. You don't remember who sent it or when, but you recall that it was either a PDF or JPEG file.
How to do it: From the search drop-down menu, select Email. In the Attachments pane, select Specific Attachment and then check both Adobe PDF and JPEG Image.
• Search for a contact from a specific company. You don't remember the contact's name but you know the name of the company that the person works for.
How to do it: From the search drop-down menu, select Contacts. In the Advanced search area, open the Basic Search pane. In the Content text box, enter the company name. (You could also do this as a simple search using the Search text box.)
• Search for an item that was tagged. You want to find all the new procedures for your industry, which you had tagged as Industry News.
How to do it: From the search drop-down menu, select All Item Types. In the Advanced search area, open the Tags pane. Select the check box for the Industry news tag. Note: Tags are user-defined, so this assumes that you have already created the tag and applied it to objects in your mailbox.
• Search by a date range. Someone who sends you a lot of email claims to have sent you a specific message in early February. Rather than look through all your emails, you can search by the contact name and the date range.
How to do it: From the search drop-down menu, select Email. In the Advanced search area, open two instances of the Date pane to set the date range. In the first one, set the Date drop-down to is before and select an end date. Use the other Date pane to specify is after and a start date. You can also search by sender using a basic search.