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Gmail Tips and Tricks – Gmail Search, Inside Chat or Gtalk

DSP — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:34:24 +0000

Gmail offers a great search feature similar to Google search.

Gmail chat history or Gtalk history is stored inside your Gmail account. You can do a search only inside the Gtalk chat history by following the method below.

In the Gmail search box type is:chat

This Gmail search will bring all the chat history.

If you are looking for any messages or chat name type is:chat David

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

Gmail Tips and Tricks – Gmail search, Find emails Before or After specific Date

DSP — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:13:41 +0000

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

If you are looking for an email received or sent on a specific date range follow the steps below.

In the Gmail search box type before:2008/11/01

This Gmail search will bring all the emails sent and received before 1st November 2008.

In the Gmail search box type After:2008/11/01

This Gmail search brings all the emails sent and received after 1st November 2008.

Note: You need to use yyyy/mm/dd format for inputting the date (year/month/date)

You can use this Gmail advanced search key along with other Gmail advanced search operators.

Eg:

After:2008/11/01 From:David � This Gmail Search will bring all the emails from David and are after 1st November 2008

You can do Gmail search for email sent to an address after or before specific date.

You can do Gmail search inside labels and folders and after or before a specific date and also more search like the above one.

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

Gmail Tips and Tricks – Gmail Search, Find all CC and BCC emails

DSP — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:52:34 +0000

Gmail offers a� great search feature that is similar to Google search.

If you are looking for emails that are CC to a specific person, you can follow the steps below.

Type CC:David

This search will bring all the email where David is in CC

If you Type BCC:David

This search will bring all the emails where David is in BCC

If your name is in BCC field, you cannot get those messages by this search, Gmail BCC search is only applicable to the emails that you have sent to.

But Gmail CC search is applicable to all the emails including yours.

You can use these Gmail advanced search operators along with other advanced search operators to find specific Gmail messages.

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

Gmail Tips and Tricks – Gmail Search, Find all Starred, all read, all unread emails

DSP — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:40:46 +0000

Gmail offers a great search feature that is similar to Google Search. It is very easy to use.

If you want to easily find all the unread or all the read emails or the emails that are starred follow the steps below.

Type is:starred for all the starred messages

is:unread for all the unread emails

is:read for all the read emails

You can use these keywords along with other keywords and you can search inside read or unread or starred messages.

If you are looking for an email from David and if you know it is inside a starred messages, type is:starred from:David this Gmail search will bring all the emails from David but only the starred messages.

You can use many advanced operator with this search like follows.

Label:David is:Starred � this finds all the emails in the label David and are starred.

is:starred label:David � this finds all the emails starred and with the label David.

To:David is:starred � this search finds all the emails sent to David and are Starred.

is:unread label:David � this search find all the emails in the Label David and are unread.

I can extend this list to many search type but you can do the search and see for yourself.

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

Gmail Tips and Tricks – Gmail Search, Find emails in Specific Folders

DSP — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:19:54 +0000

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

If you are searching for emails that are only in Inbox and if you do not want to include the emails from your sent item or from spam folder or from any labels use the following method to do this search.

Type in:inbox

in:spam

in:sent mail

in:trash

This operators only searches inside a specific folders instead of all emails in your Gmail.

You can use advanced search operators like

From:

To:

And

Subject:

You need to use these operators next to the in:inbox or next to any folders that you want to search.

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

Gmail Tips and Tricks – Gmail Search, Find emails in your trash and archive

DSP — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:03:59 +0000

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

If you are looking for emails that are in your trash folder or in your archive folder or inside you spam folder, use the following method to search.

Type in:anywhere

So if you are search for emails from David and you do not know where it is, type in:anywhere from:David

This Gmail search will bring the emails from all the folders including Gmail spam folder and Gmail trash folder.

You can do advanced search along with this search, like search subject or exact words or email sent to.

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

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

DSP — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:49:50 +0000

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.

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

DSP — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:29:38 +0000

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.

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Gmail Tips and Tricks – Gmail Search, Search emails with attachments

DSP — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:12:18 +0000

Gmail offers the search feature similar to Google search.

You can find all the emails with the attachment by following the steps below.

Type has:attachment in the search box, Gmail will bring all the emails with the attachment in your email.

You can also refine your search using from keyword as shown below

If you want to find all the emails from David and with the attachment type has:attachment from:David

Gmail will bring the emails from David and only the emails with the attachment

You can also do this search inside a label by typing Label:Family has:attachment

This will bring all the emails has the attachment and inside Gmail Label Family.

You can add more search operators and do your search.

If you are looking for more easy way click the search option next to the search button as shown below

You will get a screen with below seen options.

This method is very good where you do not need to enter the keywords

Remember Gmail does not offer searching inside an attachment yet. Yahoo offers this feature where you can search inside most of the attachments.

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

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

DSP — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:50:52 +0000

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.

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

DSP — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:20:04 +0000

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.

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Gmail Tips and Tricks – Gmail Search, Find messages from more than 2 senders

DSP — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:10:12 +0000

Gmail offers a search feature which is similar to Google search. It is very easy to use. You can find emails from more than 1 sender in one search.

If you want to find all emails from any sender you need to use from: senders name

But the same time if you are looking for all the emails from David and Solomon, you can use the operator OR as seen below

From:David OR From:Solomon

You need enter the first search criteria and a space and OR and a space then the second search criteria.

OR should be uppercase.

This search will bring the emails from David and Solomon.

You can also add more criteria using OR

If you want to find emails from David and also emails sent to Solomon, you can use the search to: as seen below

This search will bring all the emails received from David and sent to Solomon

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

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Gmail Tips and Tricks – Gmail Search, Search only the Subject of all emails

DSP — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:33:09 +0000

Gmail search feature is a great tool compared to all other email services. Gmail search feature is similar to Google search.

If you are looking for a specific email and if you think you know the subject line or specific word in a subject line use this search to find what you are looking for.

For example, if I am looking for all the meeting invitation from someone, I am sure the subject will have the word meeting in it. so I need to search as below

Subject:Meeting

This search will bring all the emails with the word in subject line �meeting�

You can use phrases or a single word in Gmail search box

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

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Gmail Tips and Tricks – Gmail Search, Find all emails sent to a specific email address

DSP — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:16:46 +0000

Gmail offers a great search feature where you can do the search similar to Google. It is easy and fun doing it.

If you want to find all the emails sent to a specific email address follow the steps.

Type to:Recipient Name

or you can type

to:Recipient email address

You can find all the emails sent by you or by someone else.

You can use the contact’s name or Contact’s email address

Using this feature it is very easy to search and filter emails. You can also add filters based on this criteria. If you apply label, it will be very easy to access later.

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Gmail Tips and Tricks – Gmail Search, Finding all the emails from specific sender

DSP — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:00:53 +0000

Gmail offers the search feature which is similar to Google search. Gmail search does not act equal to Google search but it is similar.

If you want to find any emails from a specific sender you need to type in the search box from:Sender�s Name

for example: To find all the emails from David, type From:David

You can also type the email address of the sender as From:sender@sender.com

This search will display all the emails from the specific sender

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