Did you know that OfficeTalk provides a really fast and easy way to filter your emails? If you hover your cursor over the field that you want to filter and then right click it gives you the option to filter based on either including or excluding the contents of that field.
I find it most useful to search for attachments I've received. Sometimes I'll have a recollection of receiving something but perhaps can't remember who it was from. Simply being able to see the emails in my in-box that have attachments makes it much easier to manually scan the list and recognize what I'm looking for.
Usually I use rules to help me sort my email and move items such as email newsletters straight into their own folder. But like a lot of people I don't always remember to set up the rules straight away, especially when I subscribe to a new newsletter. The right-click filter trick enables you to quickly find all of the email from a particular sender so they can be deleted or moved.
OfficeTalk provides very powerful search options which are fully explained in the on-line help files but for me the simple right-click trick is often the fastest way to find something.
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