Secrets of the Office Masters: Building a Library of Saved Searches

One way to dramatically increase your productivity is to build a library of saved searches that you can reopen easily. Even if you need to modify one or two details of a saved search, it's usually much easier to do so than to start from scratch.

Create a subfolder in the My Documents folder or on the Start menu and call it Saved Outlook Searches. Whenever you create and save a search, store the shortcut here so you can access it again.

Open the Advanced Find dialog box and begin building a library of universal searches starting with the list shown here. For each search, establish the type of item to look for: Messages, Contacts, or Tasks, for example. Specify which folders you ...

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