Are You Searching For An Important Email? ... Here's Your Big Time Saver!

Are You Searching For An Important Email? ... Here's Your Big Time Saver!
By Bill Parks

You received an email from a friend a few months ago with
directions to an up-coming seminar. Now that email is
buried under months of other email messages.

How do you find it?...

Well... You can scroll through all your previous emails
looking for the message...

But there's an easier way for You!

Email 'clients' as they're called, or programs provide
shortcuts to finding your important email. Each provides
"Advanced Find" methods so you can search by subject,
name, email address of the sender, or by any of your folders
you've set up to store your important emails. (i.e. trash, sent,
friends, family, keep, print ), or even by date.

"Wait a minute, while I count my email folders... OK, I'm
back!... Right Now I have 62 file folders for emails I want to
keep for future reference. With all these folders it's hard to
find any particular email."

Have you ever had this problem?... If you have... Hold on...
Because, Help for You is right on your computer!

While in your email files, go to Edit or Tools. In one of them,
depending on your email program you'll see one of the
following:

Find
Search Messages
Find Messages
Messages In This Folder
Advanced search.

It varies whether you're using Netscape, Eudora, or Outlook
Express... and the version.

Click around until you find the "Search Window." It will pop
up. You can search different email folders with different
search parameters. It's a lot easier for you than looking
through your hundreds or thousands of emails for
something that's important to you.

Here's some examples of how to find previously sent or
received email messages, using a variety of popular email
software and platform configurations. Check Yours... It can
be your 'Big Time Saver.' It's worth spending a little time
discovering how this works.

Outlook Express 5.02 - Macintosh: Under the "Edit" menu,
drop down to "Find", or "Advanced Find." Set up your search
parameters for the email you want to find.

Netscape 7.0 for Windows and Macintosh: Under "Tools" on
the Messenger menu bar, drop down to "Search." Pick
"Search Messages" from the resulting submenu. A search
window will open. Set up your search requirements for
whatever you remember about the email you want to find.

Netscape 4.7 for Windows and Macintosh: Under "Edit" on
the Messenger menu bar, drop down to and select "Search
Messages." You'll see a search window open with pull
down buttons so you can set the search parameters you
want. You can keep adding more search buttons by clicking
on '"More." If you know several things about the email you're
looking for... You'll save your time and frustration.

Eudora 5.1.1 for Windows: Under "Edit" on the Eudora menu
bar, drop down to "Find" and select "Find Messages" from
the resulting submenu. Enter your search information.

Eudora 5.1.1 for Macintosh OS 9 and OS X: Under the
"Special" menu, drop down to "Find" and select "Search"
from the resulting submenu.

Apple's Mail program for Macintosh OS X: Under the "Edit"
menu, drop down to "Find" and select "Find Messages" from
the resulting submenu.

You may want to spend some time working with this...
Because it can be Your Big Time Saver when you need to
find your most important email.

Bill Parks... Computer Consultant, specializing in Filemaker Pro database design. Publisher of "Information Age Products Ezine" and "Bill's Business Boosters Ezine." [http://www.Build-UR-Business.com]

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