Everyone - Search Emails Within Outlook Web Access (OWA)

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Steps-to-Take:

To search in mail:

1.      Logon to your email account via URL: https://outlook.office365.com

Click into the ‘Search’ box at the top of the page.  

3.      Enter what you would like to search and hit enter. Ex. ‘student’

           4.    This will pull up all emails that contain the word student. You can then refine your search by Filters, who it was sent from, if it contained attachments, or the date.

5.     To exit the search just click the arrow next to the search box.

Note: Sometimes the prefilled parameters for refining your search don’t contain what you want, so it is possible to search by giving Outlook keywords followed by a colon. For example if I wanted to search for an email by myself, Brooke, I could type in the search field ‘from:Brooke’ and it would show me only messages sent from someone named Brooke. I could also search for an email about students sent from myself and type in ‘students from:Brooke’ You can keep adding keywords in the search to narrow your results. They keyworks Outlook supports are:

Searching People:

1.      At the bottom of the left side of the page click on the people icon.

       2.    Enter the name of the person you want to search at the top where it says ‘Search contact, directory and groups’.

       3.    You can refine your search by searching both your contacts and the directory, or just one of them, and you can choose to include people, distribution lists, or groups. To exit the search just click the blue arrow by where it says ‘Exit search’

4.      You’ll need to click on the email icon to bring you back to email.