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Find Emails With Attachments with Outlook 2007′s Instant Search
The Instant Search box in Outlook 2007 is a huge improvement over previous versions of Outlook, but remembering all the search operators can be a little difficult, so here’s a quick one that I use all the time.
To find emails containing attachments, use the following operator in your search:
hasattachments:true
You can also combine search operators… for instance, if I wanted to find all emails I’d sent to myself with attachments, I’d use the following:
from:geek hasattachments:true
And there’s my document… here’s the search operators that I use on a daily basis:
| from:geek | Finds all messages from “geek” |
| to:geek | Finds all messages sent to “geek” (this weeds out messages I’m only cc’d on) |
| hasattachments:true | Finds all messages with attachments |
| read:no | Finds all unread messages |
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- Published 06/8/07
very good
How to find attachments by file types?
I need to recover all e-mails from a client for legal purposes. All e-mails were sent to me in 2007 and I need to know if they can be recovered.
Thank you for looking at my question as I am not really sure how you want me to ask it. I am very computer illiterate so don’t understand all that I want to. Please let me know what I should be doing to get an answer to this question.
Thank you,
Erlene