Andy "Krazy" Glew is a computer architect, a long time poster on comp.arch ... and an evangelist of collaboration tools such as wikis, calendars, blogs, etc. Plus an occasional commentator on politics, taxes, and policy. Particularly the politics of multi-ethnic societies such as Quebec, my birthplace. Photo credit: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dcxddbtr_23cg5thdfj
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
How to search within an Outlook message (hint: can't search in preview pane)
Quick stupid Outlook question:
How to search within an Outlook message? So that I can jump quickly to the details for XXX in a long message.
I guess I could use Outlook Web Access, and just use ^F in my browser. .. Well, I could, if OWA was working.
But there must be some way to do this in Outlook itself.
(I suspect that I have asked this question before, and forgotten the answer. For the life of me, can't see a button or menu item. Yes, I'm trying helpナ)
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Ah.
F4 to search
- but it doesn't work in the preview or reading pane. Must open the message in a window of its own.
Google works better than MS help. When something as basic as this needs a help page on about.com, it must be a UserInterface bug.
http://email.about.com/od/outlooktips/qt/et102904.htm
How to Search Inside a Message in Outlook
Finding messages is easy, accessible and reasonably fast in Outlook, but finding text inside a message I find more challenging. It can be done, though a few detours are involved.
Double-click the message to open it in its own window.
" You cannot search inside a message shown in the Outlook preview pane.
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Posting this on my blog so that I can find it quickly.
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