An Easy Way To Find Old Emails

Have you ever found yourself wanting to go back and see an old email again, and you have thousands of messages stacked up in your inbox, going back a year or longer?

Here's an easy way to find it in a heartbeat, if you are using Outlook Express, the standard Microsoft email program (and probably Microsoft Outlook as well, even though I haven't tried it).

If you can remember some word that was in it...maybe a name, or part of the email address, you can find it in a snap!

Think of that word (or words) as "keywords" for a search engine, only the search engine is already built into the email program for just that purpose.

At the top, second from the left, is "Edit." Left-click one time on it, and in the resulting drop-down you will see "Find" with a little black triangle to the right. Hold your cursor over "Find" and in the resulting pop-out, move your cursor over to the right, and left-click one time on "Message..."

In the resulting window are four different places to type in your word/words for search purposes. Choose the most appropriate one, type it in, then click on "Find Now" and it will find any messages with your "keywords."