- To find messages that mention a person but aren’t from that person, type:
person -from:person - To find messages containing specific text, but not from a specific user, type:
text -from:user - To find messages containing specific text that do not contain other specific text, type:
text -otherText
Header Shortcuts
Shortcut | Description | Examples |
To:, Cc:, Bcc: | Search your folders for a specific recipient. You can use a name, a fragment at the beginning of a name, or a full first and last name in quotes (if the mail was sent with the full name in the To: field). No space after the colon. | to:mary cc:ma bcc:“Mary Poppins” |
From: | The From: shortcut can be used to search for a specific sender. You can use a name, a fragment at the beginning of a name, or a full name in quotes (if the mail was sent with the full name in the From: field). Use quotes for full names. | from:Mikki from:mi from:“Mikki Tucker” |
Subject: | The Subject: shortcut can be used to search for messages containing specific text in the subject. Use quotes for multiple-word subjects. | subject:dinner subject:“favorite route” |
Attachment Shortcuts
The attachment shortcuts can be used to search for properties of an attachment.
Shortcut | Description | Examples |
attachment: | Search for text inside any text-based attachment (it can’t search for words in a picture). | attachment:reservation attachment:“great year” |
attachmentname: | Search for messages containing attachments with the specified text in the filename. | attachmentname:reservation attachmentname:resume attachmentname:“final results” |
attachmentcount: | Search for messages with a specified number of attachments. To find messages with more or less than a specific number of attachments, use the greater-than or less-than symbol. | attachmentcount:1 attachmentcount:>0 attachmentcount:<5 |
attachmenttype: | Search for messages containing a certain type of attachment (for example PDFs). Your choices are: .pdf file: pdf .doc or .rtf file: msword .xls, .xlsb, xlsm, .xlsx: excel .txt: text .bmp,.gif, .jpg, .png, tiff: image .bmp: bmp .jpg: jpeg .gif: gif .png: png .tif, .tiff: tiff .mpg, .mpeg (MPEG movie): mpeg | attachmenttype:pdf attachmenttype:msword attachmenttype:excel attachmenttype:text attachmenttype:image attachmenttype:jpeg |
attachmentlanguages: | Search for attachments in a specific language. Your choices are:
| attachmentlanguages:it |
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