MAIL

Finding a mail message
You can look for a particular message in your mail application by searching by sender in a view or folder, or by searching for words in either the subjects or in the full text of messages.

To search by sender

1. In the mail navigation pane, click All Documents, or click a view or folder that you know the message is in.

2. Click the Sender column heading to sort messages alphabetically by sender.

3. Start typing the name of the sender to open the Starts with... dialog box. You can type some or all of the sender's name.

4. Click Search. Notes selects the first message sent to you by the sender whose name starts with the characters you typed..

To search for words in the subjects of messages

1. In the mail navigation pane, click All Documents, or click a view or folder that you know the message is in.

2. Click any message title to shift focus to the view or folder

3. Choose Edit > Find/Replace.

4. Type the word or words to find and click Find Next. Each time you click Find Next, the next message in the view or folder whose subject contains the word or words is highlighted.

To search for words in the full text of messages

1. In the mail navigation pane, click All Documents, or click a view or folder that you know the message is in.

2. Make sure that your mail application is full-text indexed.


3. Click View > Search This View to open the search bar.

4. Type the word or words to search for in the Search for field.

5. Click Search.

Tip For more information about advanced searches, see Searching an application for documents that contain specific text.

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