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

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

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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
    2024-08-31T15:14:31+00:00

    I am amazed that one year after appearance of the new outlook, MS could not solve the lacking find function (CTRL + f ) to locate a text string in a mail.
    This is abolut ELEMENTARY !!!
    I have to revert to classic outlook because of this !!
    I believe most user have this problem, as it is again an again readdressed ..

    Hope MS can one day solve this.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-09-11T06:24:08+00:00

    Searching for text within an email is not possible in the New Outlook. I switched back to the old version because this basic feature is missing. It feels like the New Outlook is still in a beta phase.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-09-19T16:59:17+00:00

    Seriously!! How could it be overlooked to be able to search within email chains? What in the literal development thought process was going on?!

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-09-19T19:39:11+00:00

    Seriously!! How could it be overlooked to be able to search within email chains? What in the literal development thought process was going on?!

    I suspect this probably came about because the codebase is that created for the webmail portal, which doesn't need a search function as all browsers have that as standard. Not adding it when migrating to a standalone program was a pretty major oversight, though.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-09-20T16:57:21+00:00

    Not having an email search feature in the new Outlook is a program killer for me and I've had to switch back to Outlook (classic).

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