Archive for November 28th, 2008

Gmail Tips and Tricks – Gmail Search, Find emails using exact phrases

Gmail offers a great search feature similar to Google search, it is very easy.

If you are looking for any emails that contains Social Gathering, you can do the simple search by typing Social Gathering in the search box. But Gmail will bring the emails with the word social and gathering anywhere in the email this will be very broad search.

If you type the search with in the quotes as shown below you will get the results exactly matching Social Gathering.

Type �Social Gathering�

You can also do this search along with other keywords,

for example subject:�Social Gathering�

This will bring all the emails with the subject line Social Gathering

So the quotes around any phrases means the exact phrase without splitting them. Try this search and you will see the difference yourself.

You can also do this search by going into Gmail search options as shown below

You will see the below screen where you can enter your Gmail search criteria

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

Dave

Gmail Tips and Tricks – Gmail Search, Find Gmail attachment by name

Gmail offers search feature similar to Google search. it is very easy to use.

If you are looking for an attachment and if you know the name you can do the search by the following method.

Type filename:timesheet

This search will bring all the emails with the attachment timesheet

You can also do this search for file types, If you know that you have a PDF and you do not know the name, you can type Filename:PDF

This search will bring all the emails with the PDF attachment

There should not be any space in between File and Name

You can also do this search by going to the search options screen

You will see the screen as shown below where you can do the detailed search without entering the advanced operators

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

Dave