Sunday, January 19, 2025

Search Mail and People in Outlook on the web

 Search Mail and People in Outlook on the web

In Outlook on the web, you can use the search bar at the top of the page to search for email messages and people.

When you use search from your mailbox, the results will include messages, contacts, and files.

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Note: If the instructions don't match what you see, you might be using an older version of Outlook on the web. 

You can use Search filters to refine your search with options like Folders, From, To, Subject, keywords, date ranges, and attachments. To use search filters, select Filters Filterat the end of the search box.

Search box in Outlook on the web showing the available filters

Instructions for classic Outlook on the web

Use Advanced Query Search to refine results

Use Advanced Query Search (AQS) to refine your search results. In the search box, type an AQS keyword from the table below, followed by a colon and what you want to search for. For example, to find messages with a subject that contains “report,” enter subject:report in the Search Mail and People box.



When you use AQS, you can search on multiple search terms, including any, all, or an exact phrase.

  • Subject:product plan will find any message with “product” or “plan” in the subject.

  • Subject:(product plan) will find any message with both “product” and “plan” in the subject.

  • Subject:“product plan” will find any message with the phrase “product plan” in the subject.

You can also use AND or OR to search on multiple search terms. For example, you could search for messages from Jerri that include "report" in the subject by entering From:Jerri AND Subject:report in the search box.

Tips, tricks and more

Use these tips and tricks to improve the search responses. 

  • Keyword searches are not case sensitive. For example, cat and CAT return the same results.

  • When searching on a property:value expression, don't put a space after the colon. If there is a space, your intended value will just be full-text searched. For example, toJerriFrye searches for "JerriFrye" as a keyword, rather than for messages that were sent to JerriFrye. To search for messages sent to JerriFrye, enter to:JerriFrye.

  • A space between two keywords or two property:value expressions is the same as using AND. For example, from:"Jerri Frye"subject:reorganization returns all email messages sent by Jerri Frye that contain the word reorganization in the subject line.

  • When searching a recipient property, such as To, From, Cc, or Recipients, you can use an SMTP address, alias, or display name to denote a recipient. For example, you can use JerriFrye@contoso.comJerriFrye, or "JerriFrye".

  • You can use only suffix wildcard searches—for example, cat* or set*. Prefix wildcard searches (*cat) or substring wildcard searches (*cat*) aren’t supported.

  • When searching a property, use double quotation marks (" ") if the search value consists of multiple words. For example, subject:budget Q1 returns messages that contain budget in the in the subject line and Q1 anywhere in the message or in any of the message properties. Using subject:"budget Q1" returns all messages that contain budget Q1 anywhere in the subject line.

  • To exclude content marked with a certain property value from your search results, place a minus sign (-) before the name of the property. For example, -from:"Jerri Frye" will exclude any messages sent by Jerri Frye. 

  • To keep Outlook running smoothly, only the first 1,000 search results are returned. If the results list doesn’t contain what you’re searching for, try a more specific search. 

Thanks for Reading....
Masud Rana

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Search Mail and People in Outlook on the web

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