Using Search Folders Another new and cool feature in Outlook 2003 is Search Folders. These are virtual views of your message store, using the same filtering capabilities as Advanced Find and Views. | Team LiB Using Search Folders Another new and cool feature in Outlook 2003 is Search Folders. These are virtual views of your message store using the same filtering capabilities as Advanced Find and Views. Because these are virtual folders the messages you see in Search Folders are not duplicates of the originals they re pointers to the original. If you mark a message in a search folder as read flag the message or delete it the message in your Inbox will reflect what you did in the search folder. Outlook creates three Search Folders for you For Follow Up Searches all folders for flagged messages the default folder view groups the messages by flag color. Large Mail Groups all messages in your mailbox by size. Use this Search Folder to help you find messages with attachments. Unread Mail Shows all unread messages in your mailbox. Use rules to file messages in folders as they arrive and read them from this folder The criteria used for the default For Follow Up and Unread Mail folders cannot be changed but you can change the folders that are searched. The criteria for the Large Mail folder Show Mail Greater Than defaults to 100KB and is configurable. Right-click on the Search Folder and choose Customize This Search Folder. Use the By Follow Up Search Folder to show all of your flagged mail items at a glance with the messages grouped by flag color. Collapsed groups include a message count so that you know how many messages are in each group. You can create custom Search Folders or custom views to restrict the flag colors shown. Use the Large Mail Search Folder to help you keep your mailbox size under control. Because it groups messages by size Huge 1-5MB Very Large 500KB-1MB and Large 100-500KB you can easily find messages with large attachments and remove the attachment. The final Search Folder Unread Mail was often requested. As new mail arrives you only need to check the Unread folder to read the messages not all the folders that rules move messages to. As you mark
