Search inside an email and search for emails (new Outlook)

Anonymous
2023-09-26T08:43:34+00:00

Split from this thread.

Hi,

I'm trying New Outlook, I would like to search inside an email for text, and also search for emails in the inbox.

I cant see any way of doing these functions.

Control-F does nothing.

Can you help please ?!

Thanks

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-11-08T09:16:51+00:00

    I can't believe Microsoft would have completely removed the possibility to search for specific text within messages? It's an essential part of quickly finding what you are looking for within long messages / message chains. I don't have time to read page upon page to find the place I'm looking for.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-10-27T11:13:23+00:00

    The original poster also asked about searching for text inside an email. I have this question too, and I don't think your response addresses this?

    In the old Outlook it's simply a case of double-clicking the email to open it in a separate window, and there is a find option on the toolbar which can be used to search for text within that email. The new Outlook doesn't seem to have this option?

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-02-12T12:16:01+00:00

    Adding my voice to the Microsoft New Outlook development team:

    Please, replace 'crtl-f' currently assigned to forward an email with a text search!

    If not possible, add another way to search text in an email.

    All community highly appreciates your cooperation!

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-02-08T00:08:11+00:00

    which utterly defies Microsoft's own convention on this. Every windows app uses ctrl+f for find as a standard. Making Ctrl+F as forward is a narrow mided way for a dev somewhere to have things the way THEY prefer rather than sticking to the standard, the majority opinion, and setting his own backward-thinking custom settings manually.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-01-23T14:09:36+00:00

    Still an open question?! Searching an individual email for something should be much easier than copying/pasting to Word and Ctrl+f therein! Isn't it 2024 already? 🤔

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