{"id":4504,"date":"2018-12-12T16:05:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T23:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/?p=4504"},"modified":"2018-12-12T16:05:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T23:05:13","slug":"outlook-tip-simplest-way-to-improve-windows-outlook-search-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/outlook-tip-simplest-way-to-improve-windows-outlook-search-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Outlook Tip: Simplest way to Improve Windows Outlook Search Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people avoid using the Search box at the top of the Inbox in Windows Outlook because it returns too many hits&#8212;that makes finding a specific email very hard. If you are consistently frustrated by that, here\u2019s a simple tip. Narrow the search by using the Subject button (see left side of figure below).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/images\/subject-search.jpg\" width=\"599\" height=\"235\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This works because very often the keyword we are looking for is in the subject (title) of the email and using the button forces a search in the subject only. The way to do this is simple (step numbers below correspond to numbers in figure above):<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Click once in the empty Search box.<\/li>\n<li>Doing that opens the Search Tools Ribbon, find it.<\/li>\n<li>Find and click the Subject button in the Search Tools Ribbon. That inserts a phrase in the Search box.<\/li>\n<li>In that phrase, overtype the selected \u201ckeywords\u201d entry with your specific search term and hit Enter.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>That\u2019s it!<\/p>\n<p><strong>For a video demonstration of this tip<\/strong>, and to see a lot more similar tips, watch Lesson 3.2 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/InboxNinja\/\">Outlook Inbox Ninja Video Course<\/a>. Also watch Lesson 3.3 there. In fact, there are a ton of good tools described in the whole section 3 of that course, so check it out.<\/p>\n<p>Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people avoid using the Search box at the top of the Inbox in Windows Outlook because it returns too many hits&#8212;that makes finding a specific email very hard. If you are consistently frustrated by that, here\u2019s a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/outlook-tip-simplest-way-to-improve-windows-outlook-search-results\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4504"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4538,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions\/4538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}