Why can't I search like this in Outlook?

[Martin]

I want to search for a specific term in Outlook 2002 (Q1a=
2). However, when I run the search I find everything
within the folder and not just the string "Q1a= 2".

I'm assuming the problem is in the way the search is being
carried out. Every email in the folder will have the
string "Q1a=" in it, and every email will probably have
a "2" in it somewhere, so I'm assuming it's searching for
both a the same time, not one string.

I have tried searching using speech marks " " which I
thought would give me results where the ONLY matches
were "Q1a= 2", but it tells me it hasn't found anything.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Martin