A couple of weeks ago I wrote a tip about how to find email messages sent or received between certain dates. What I wrote still stands but now I've found a much easier way. (Thanks for the inspiration, Jackie!)
Here’s how:
- Open the Outlook folder you want to search (If you don’t know where you have stored the message, you can skip this step and use step 4.)
- Click in the Instant Search box in the top right hand corner or press CTRL + E
- Type received: <start date> .. <end date>
- If necessary, click on Try searching again in All mail Items at the bottom of the search results to search all other Outlook folders
For example, received:01/07 .. 31/07 will find any email messages that you sent or received in July this year. (No need to specify the current year.) Or received:01/01/2015 .. 01/05/2015 will find emails you sent or received between January and May 2015.
I obviously hope you have a good reason for hanging on to stuff from 2015, especially because various survey statistics show that we waste too much time searching for documents and email messages. To be precise, according to a McKinsey report people spend on average about nine hours per week searching and gathering information! So only keep what you need - and know how to find it.
Related tips:
Find that needle in a haystack
Find even more needles in that haystack
Reduce irrelevant search results
Search for messages sent to a particular person during a certain period of time
Find email messages sent or received between certain dates
Unless stated otherwise, these tips were written for Microsoft Office 2010.
27 November 2017
Karen Roem offers software training and support through her company Roem Ltd. Contact her by email (Karen@roem.co.uk) or visit her website at www.roem.co.uk