Using Advanced Find Because I have several contacts whose names are Becky and correspond with other Beckys | Team LiB Using Advanced Find Because I have several contacts whose names are Becky and correspond with other Beckys I have quite a few search results to sort through when I use Find. I could search for Becky using her last name also but it would miss the items in which only her first name was used. In this case it would be better to use Advanced Find because I would be able to use additional criteria in my search and could narrow the results. Advanced Find has the capability to use multiple conditions so that you can fine-tune your search and eliminate some of the results that aren t what you expected. Advanced Find gives you the opportunity to create searches using any field and use the AND or OR operator in your search strings. Outlook includes a predefined Advanced Find which finds all messages in a thread or all messages from a sender. To use the predefined Advanced Find right-click on any message choose Find All and then select from Related Messages or Messages from Sender. These options open the Advanced Find dialog with search fields filled in to find all the messages in the thread or all the messages from the sender. By default it searches only in the Inbox Drafts and Sent Items folders. If you need to search other folders use Browse to select additional folders and choose Find Now to rerun the search. You can also add additional criteria to reduce the number of items found. Task Create an Advanced Find In this task we ll create a simple find using Advanced Find s predefined fields 1. Open Advanced Find using Tools Find Advanced Find or by pressing Ctrl Shift F. 2. Select the type of Outlook item you re searching for from the Look for list. Selecting the Look for type clears the search criteria so you ll want to set the Look for type first. 3. Click the Browse button and select the folders you want to search in. 4. Enter the criteria for your search. The first tab uses the name of the Outlook type you re searching and includes a keyword search of subject .
