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I am looking for a calendar appt that has the word "wilson,l" in the subject line, but when I search for it, it brings up practically everything in the calendar. I think it is because the comma tells it to search for the word wilson OR the letter l, but could someone clarify that? I tried putting quotes around it, but that didn't bring up any results. I searched Microsoft's site to find more about outlook search criteria, but didn't have much luck.
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Chris Bottomley
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yes, but unfortunately when I try that nothing comes up. I did confirm it was in there and even tried copying it to the search field with quotes around it
It works for me though ... need a different tack then.
I assume names in outlook mail fields are separated by a semicolon or do you use the comma as a separator?
Chrs
I assume names in outlook mail fields are separated by a semicolon or do you use the comma as a separator?
Chrs
ASKER
that is correct, we use a semicolon to seperate them.
I have retried this with 2003 and it still works
i.e. I created a calendar item with the subject Wilson, i and a search for "wilson, I" returns just the one item.
Chris
i.e. I created a calendar item with the subject Wilson, i and a search for "wilson, I" returns just the one item.
Chris
ASKER
Do you think it would have anything to do with there being over 5,000 entires on this calendar?
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unless you put quotes around it correct?
as far as i can see yes
"wilson, I"
Chriis