Tired of getting tons of hits in your Outlook search? Want to find a specific email that you’d sent to someone containing a specific word from the search pane?
ADVANCED OUTLOOK 2007 SEARCHES
In either the Windows Vista search field or within Outlook 2007’s search box, type in:
To: [recipient name] AND [keyword(s)]
For example:
To: John Smith AND gadget Vista
Or type:
Sent: [Today/Yesterday] AND From: [recipient name]
Sent: [Today/Yesterday] AND To: [recipient name]
For example:
Sent: Today AND To: John Smith
(This would display every mail sent to John Smith today.)
There’s a lot of other advanced parameters that you can use against email & document searches that are documented here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/desktopsearch/addresources/advanced.mspx
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ADVANCED WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER SEARCHES
By the way, this also works for finding the name of a song you have stored somewhere. Using Windows Vista search, you can use several keywords to find the name of a song based on several criteria:
Composer:
Artist:
Album:
More media content search parameters can be found here:
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/e3a27361-8d1e-458f-98b1-b01531dedae51033.mspx.
Don’t forget that the AND, OR and NOT operators work as well.
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