You could use the advanced find dialog by hitting control+shift+f. The first field is the subject line, so you can just type the word you're looking for and hit enter. If you tab around this dialog, you can see how you can generate a more robust search. Note that this will open up your search results in a new window. This is both good and bad. You won't have all of the options you have in your in box, like using the applications key to then find every message in that conversation, but having the search results in their own window has it's own benefits, such as leaving your search results up while you can still go back to your in box or your calendar. This also just looks for messages that have been downloaded to your system.

What I would do is hit tab when your in your in box, which takes you over to a search query field. This let's you build a search query, so to look for emails with a word in the subject line, I'd type <subject:" searching for an item"> where you wouldn't actually type the angled brackets but you would type the quotes since you want to enclose multiple words. You can build a more complicated query with something like <subject:" searching for an item" and from:Jeanne>. One advantage to this search is it will search through all of your messages in the cloud and not just on your local machine. You also stay in your in box, so you can get to some of those features in your in box like sending something to the junk folder. You won't have your search results in their own window though, so you'll be stuck if you then need to bo back to your in box or your calendar for something when working with your search results. Oh, and one more thing, after you type your search query, you can hit tab twice and then restrict your search to a specific folder, such as your current folder. Otherwise, you'll get everything in your in box that matches your search query, regardless of what folder it's in. This is good if you don't know where a message is but may be way more than you want.

I do quite a bit of searching through my in box in Outlook, so I hope this helps, but if you have any more questions then just ask!

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Christopher (AKA CJ)
Chaltain at Gmail

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> How do I search for an item in an Outlook folder like a word in a subject?
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