Archive for November 27th, 2008

Gmail Tips and Tricks – Gmail search, Search within specific label

Gmail offers a great search feature similar to Google search which is very easy to use.

If you are looking for messages from specific Label, do the search as shown below.

If you are looking for emails from David in label Family, type Label:Family From:David

This Gmail search will bring the emails from David and which is inside the Label Family

Do not forget to add the space between the first criteria and the second one.

You can use Gmail label search to search messages sent to a specific address

This Gmail search will bring the emails sent to David and which is inside the label Family

You can also search for emails with the specific word and only in a label as shown below

This Gmail Search brings the emails with the word meeting and which is inside� the label Family

You can also narrow your search results by adding more operators to this Gmail search type.

If you want to find the emails inside label Family and with the subject meeting, type Label:Family Subject:Meeting

If you want to exclude emails with the specific word and which is inside a Label, Type Label:Family Subject:Meeting -November

If you are not comfortable with operators like this, you can choose the advanced search option and type the search that you want to do.

Once you click on the search options, you will see the screen as shown below (Click to Enlarge)

You have all the options mentioned above in detail.

If you have any questions or suggestion, please post a comment.

Dave

Gmail Tips and Tricks – Gmail search, Exclude specific messages from your search

Gmail offers the search feature similar to Google search.

When you do the search, you can exclude unwanted messages by adding the hyphen as shown below.

If you are searching for any email with the word meeting but not the word November, type in the search box as meeting �November

You need to add the hyphen and the word that you don�t want to see in your search result and remember not to put the space after the hyphen.

You can do advanced searches using this operator. And also you can only eliminate 1 word off from your search, if you want to eliminate more than 1 word, Gmail does not search properly.

If you want to filter out more than 1 word do the search as shown below.

This Gmail search will bring all the emails with the word meeting and without the word November and December.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please post a comment.

Dave