How to exclude attachment content from searching in Outlook?
When directly entering text content that you want to filter out the emails based on into the Search box in Outlook, the search results will be displayed in email subject, body, as well as the attachment content. If you want to exclude attachment content from searching in Outlook, the method in this article can help you.
Exclude attachment content from searching in Outlook
Exclude attachment content from searching in Outlook
Actually, you can narrow your search condition to exclude attachment content from searching in Outlook. Please do as follows.
1. If you just want to search content “test” in email body, please enter content:test into the Search box. See screenshot:
For searching in email subject only, please use this search condition: subject:test.
For searching in both email subject and body, please apply subject:test content:test.
The attachment content won’t be included in the email search with the above searching criteria.
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