{"id":258,"date":"2017-05-10T00:02:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T00:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/?p=258"},"modified":"2017-05-10T00:03:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T00:03:47","slug":"outlook-searching-efficient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/2017\/05\/10\/outlook-searching-efficient\/","title":{"rendered":"Is your Outlook searching efficient?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you do a search in Outlook, looking to find one specific email message, are you taking advantage of the powerful search features Outlook provides?<\/p>\n<p>If you have a large Inbox or occasional search your entire Outlook file for a misfiled email, do you key in a few words in the Search box and then scroll through the large numbers of emails Outlook finds, visually searching for the one message you want to find? While this works, it\u2019s not efficient.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, use some of the options on the Search tab to whittle down the number of emails:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Outlook-Search-Options-300x67.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"67\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Outlook-Search-Options-300x67.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Outlook-Search-Options.jpg 415w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n\u2022 From: Enter the senders first or last name<br \/>\n\u2022 Subject: Can you remember a word or phrase in the email\u2019s subject line?<br \/>\n\u2022 Has Attachments: Only show emails with attachments<br \/>\n\u2022 This Week: A drop-down list; when was the email received or sent?<br \/>\n\u2022 Sent To: Enter the first or last name of the recipient<\/p>\n<p>Use one or more of these to reduce the number of emails you need to scan through. When I do a search, my goal is to have no scroll bar on the right of the screen so I have less than a screenful of emails to scan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you do a search in Outlook, looking to find one specific email message, are you taking advantage of the powerful search features Outlook provides? If you have a large &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outlook"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is your Outlook searching efficient? - Alandale Training Software Tips<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/2017\/05\/10\/outlook-searching-efficient\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Is your Outlook searching efficient? - Alandale Training Software Tips\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When you do a search in Outlook, looking to find one specific email message, are you taking advantage of the powerful search features Outlook provides? If you have a large ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/2017\/05\/10\/outlook-searching-efficient\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Alandale Training Software Tips\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-05-10T00:02:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-05-10T00:03:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Outlook-Search-Options.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"415\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"93\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"John Chandler\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"John Chandler\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Is your Outlook searching efficient? - Alandale Training Software Tips","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/2017\/05\/10\/outlook-searching-efficient\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Is your Outlook searching efficient? - Alandale Training Software Tips","og_description":"When you do a search in Outlook, looking to find one specific email message, are you taking advantage of the powerful search features Outlook provides? If you have a large ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/2017\/05\/10\/outlook-searching-efficient\/","og_site_name":"Alandale Training Software Tips","article_published_time":"2017-05-10T00:02:36+00:00","article_modified_time":"2017-05-10T00:03:47+00:00","og_image":[{"width":415,"height":93,"url":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Outlook-Search-Options.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"John Chandler","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"John Chandler","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/2017\/05\/10\/outlook-searching-efficient\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/2017\/05\/10\/outlook-searching-efficient\/"},"author":{"name":"John Chandler","@id":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/#\/schema\/person\/4354e1f8ae425698db32a15825a8ecb4"},"headline":"Is your Outlook searching efficient?","datePublished":"2017-05-10T00:02:36+00:00","dateModified":"2017-05-10T00:03:47+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/2017\/05\/10\/outlook-searching-efficient\/"},"wordCount":202,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/2017\/05\/10\/outlook-searching-efficient\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Outlook-Search-Options.jpg","articleSection":["Outlook"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/2017\/05\/10\/outlook-searching-efficient\/","url":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/2017\/05\/10\/outlook-searching-efficient\/","name":"Is your Outlook searching efficient? - Alandale Training Software Tips","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/2017\/05\/10\/outlook-searching-efficient\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/2017\/05\/10\/outlook-searching-efficient\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Outlook-Search-Options.jpg","datePublished":"2017-05-10T00:02:36+00:00","dateModified":"2017-05-10T00:03:47+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/#\/schema\/person\/4354e1f8ae425698db32a15825a8ecb4"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/2017\/05\/10\/outlook-searching-efficient\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/2017\/05\/10\/outlook-searching-efficient\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Outlook-Search-Options.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Outlook-Search-Options.jpg","width":415,"height":93},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/","name":"Alandale Training Software Tips","description":"Weekly Software Tips","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/#\/schema\/person\/4354e1f8ae425698db32a15825a8ecb4","name":"John Chandler","sameAs":["http:\/\/AlandaleTraining.com"],"url":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/author\/john1973\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}