Dear colleagues,
Here are some tips on how to get the most out of your searches.
Quite often it is useful to add “logical operators” and “specifiers” to your searches.
Here are some tips for searching in your email:
If you want to find emails containing specific words, put the operator AND between them, so, if you want to find one of my tech tips about Chrome, you could search for Weekly AND Chrome – note that the operator should be capitalized.
Other operators include: OR, NOT, >, <, and =
If you want an exact search, you can put the phrase inside quotation marks, so searching for “weekly tech” will find all the emails with exactly that pair of words in them.
You can use specifiers to narrow things down further. As an example if you want to find all the emails from Michael Jackson (God forbid!), you can use the following: from:michael jackson and Outlook will find all the emails from me!
Other specifiers include:
Subject: - example- subject:weekly
Received: -example- received:1/20/2016 (unfortunately outlook likes the American date system!)
And many more…
You can combine these in various ways so if I wanted to find emails from Andy about field trips, I could use: from:rodford field
This link is to a cheat sheet of all the main Outlook search functions: https://goo.gl/b47T6H
Most of these search tips also work in Google searches, but there are even more suggestions here:
PS, I was able to see four of the five naked-eye visible planets on Sunday morning. Mercury is very hard to see, requiring a clear horizon.
These tips are now being archived at the following location in a blog format: http://smustechtips.blogspot.ca
Also, please let me know if you have any tips you would like to share!
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Mike Jackson, Science Teacher
Academic Technology Coordinator
St Michaels University School, Victoria, BC
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