Teach Yourself VISUALLY™ Outlook® 2007

Create a Custom Search Folder

A search folder is a folder that contains e-mail messages that match various search criteria. By default, Outlook includes three search folders: Unread Mail, Categorized Mail, and Large Mail, placing copies of any messages that meet the established criteria in those folders. You can create your own custom search folders to store messages that meet criteria you set.

Create a Custom Search Folder

1.	In Mail, click File.
2.	Click New.
3.	Click Search Folder. [View full size image] The New Search Folder dialog box appears.
4.	Under Custom, click Create a Custom Search Folder.
5.	Click Choose. The Custom Search Folder dialog box appears.
6.	Type a name for the custom search folder.
7.	Click Criteria to open the Search Folder Criteria dialog box. [View full size image]
8.	To search for messages that contain a certain word, type the word.
9.	Choose where in the message the word you typed should appear.
10.	To search for messages from a particular person, click ...