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jimmie.gorman
The following extract from "Microsoft Outlook Help"
describes the usage of * and ? as wildcards to search for
text in e-mail messages. It does'nt work on my machine
which is loaded with Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1
Professional on a military base. Can someone help me make
it work? Our MCOM LAN administrators don't know very much.
Use complex search criteria to find files:
When you click Files in the Look for box (on the Advanced
Find dialog box) to search for files on your computer or a
network, you can use complex search criteria in the Named
and Search for the word(s) boxes on the Files tab. To
reuse a recent entry, click it in the Named box or the
Search for the word(s) box.
To search for files by file name, in the Named box, you
can do any of the following.
You can type Example
Partial file names Type region to find all files with
names that include "region."
File name extensions Type *.txt to find text files.
Wildcard characters To find only file names that end
with "region," type *region. Or type gr?y to find
instances of both "gray" and "grey" in file names. Use an
asterisk (*) to match any number of characters, or use a
question mark (?) to match any single character.
To search for files that contain a specific word or have
specific text properties, in the Search for the word(s)
box, you can do any of the following to locate a file.
To find Use this operator Example
Any single character ? Typing s?t finds "sat" and "set."
Any string of characters * Typing s*d finds "sad"
and "started."
Note If files do not appear in the Advanced Find dialog
box, the Integrated File Management component probably
wasn't loaded during Outlook Setup. For information about
how to load components, click .
describes the usage of * and ? as wildcards to search for
text in e-mail messages. It does'nt work on my machine
which is loaded with Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1
Professional on a military base. Can someone help me make
it work? Our MCOM LAN administrators don't know very much.
Use complex search criteria to find files:
When you click Files in the Look for box (on the Advanced
Find dialog box) to search for files on your computer or a
network, you can use complex search criteria in the Named
and Search for the word(s) boxes on the Files tab. To
reuse a recent entry, click it in the Named box or the
Search for the word(s) box.
To search for files by file name, in the Named box, you
can do any of the following.
You can type Example
Partial file names Type region to find all files with
names that include "region."
File name extensions Type *.txt to find text files.
Wildcard characters To find only file names that end
with "region," type *region. Or type gr?y to find
instances of both "gray" and "grey" in file names. Use an
asterisk (*) to match any number of characters, or use a
question mark (?) to match any single character.
To search for files that contain a specific word or have
specific text properties, in the Search for the word(s)
box, you can do any of the following to locate a file.
To find Use this operator Example
Any single character ? Typing s?t finds "sat" and "set."
Any string of characters * Typing s*d finds "sad"
and "started."
Note If files do not appear in the Advanced Find dialog
box, the Integrated File Management component probably
wasn't loaded during Outlook Setup. For information about
how to load components, click .