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Creating search folders

Creating search folders

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Creating search folders

- In the last video, I showed you that if you had any recent searches, you can rerun the search by selecting it in the Recent Searches dialogue. If you do a lot of searches, you may find that an older search gets pushed off the list for your newer ones. If you need that old one back, you can save it in something called a Search Folder. I'm going to close out of the Search bar for now. To create a Search Folder, click the Folder ribbon tab. From here, select New Search Folder. This is going to create a saved search that I can run any time I need to, and I don't have to worry about it disappearing off the Recent Search list. There's some preset rules that I can create inside the Search Folder. For example only my unread mail, any messages that I have flagged for follow-up, mail that's important. I can also choose Mail from and to specific people. I can then choose who I want that mail sent to and received from. I can also have Mail from specific people. Large mail, old mail. I can have…

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