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Perform search operations in Outlook

Perform search operations in Outlook

From the course: Cert Prep: Outlook 2016 Microsoft Office Specialist (77-731)

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Perform search operations in Outlook

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- [Instructor] Outlook provides multiple ways to search for your items. Here, we'll take a look at creating new search folders, searching for messages, task, contacts, or calendar items, searching by using Advanced Find, and searching by folder. First, let's take a look at creating new Search Folders. The navigation pane contains a Search Folders area underneath each mail account. I can expand that Search Folder to see if there are any existing Search Folders, and I can use this area to create new Search Folders. The idea here is to create folders that are based on certain criteria. So anytime I click on the Larger Than 250 kilobytes folder, Outlook does a search of my mail and provides me any of the messages that match that criteria. If you don't already have a For Follow Up folder, this is a really valuable folder. So I'll show you how to create this. You can right click on Search Folders and choose New Search Folder. There are all kinds of criteria that are preset for you here. You…

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