Find in ALL SENT ITEMS greyed out!

I need a way of searching in "all sent items" from "all accounts". I can see
"all sent email" in quick view but the "find" option there is greyed out.

I run 35 email addresses. As owner of several slightly related websites I
have emails similar to
""
""
""
""
""
""
The people that email me have clicked on an email address and I like to give
the impression they are dealing with a seperate department in each case for
each "shop". When I reply I need to do so from each individual account. In
"Live Mail" each account has its own sent items folder. I often need to refer
to old emails and I cant find the msoe or winmail find option for looking for
a text string in all "sent emails". Do I really have to do 35 individual
searches each time I need to refer to something that was written in an email.
(With 20-30 emails a day I can not remember which account things were sent
from).

My work-around would be to do a bcc to a 36th email address and chose not to
save sent emails from each account. I can then bcc-receive all sent items
from all email adresses and archive them with a filter. However, I was hoping
that would not be necessary and anyway I would probably forget half the time
to click the bcc.

Bottom line, how do I search for a text string in "all sent items"?

Any help greatly appreciated.

Garry Jones
"Now 30 years since I was an IBM 370-148 computer operator"
Sweden, UK expat

Afaik, Searching for content within a group of messages is not an available option in Quick Views. It is only available within an
account's folder and also folders within the Storage folder. Quick Views is just a 'search' that finds, displays and allows the
viewing of messages that actually reside elsewhere.

--
...winston
ms-mvp mail

"Garry_1961" <> wrote in message news:F1BCAF2B-CBF1-4A83-A30B-...
> I need a way of searching in "all sent items" from "all accounts". I can see
> "all sent email" in quick view but the "find" option there is greyed out.
>
> I run 35 email addresses. As owner of several slightly related websites I
> have emails similar to
> ""
> ""
> ""
> ""
> ""
> ""
> The people that email me have clicked on an email address and I like to give
> the impression they are dealing with a seperate department in each case for
> each "shop". When I reply I need to do so from each individual account. In
> "Live Mail" each account has its own sent items folder. I often need to refer
> to old emails and I cant find the msoe or winmail find option for looking for
> a text string in all "sent emails". Do I really have to do 35 individual
> searches each time I need to refer to something that was written in an email.
> (With 20-30 emails a day I can not remember which account things were sent
> from).
>
> My work-around would be to do a bcc to a 36th email address and chose not to
> save sent emails from each account. I can then bcc-receive all sent items
> from all email adresses and archive them with a filter. However, I was hoping
> that would not be necessary and anyway I would probably forget half the time
> to click the bcc.
>
> Bottom line, how do I search for a text string in "all sent items"?
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> Garry Jones
> "Now 30 years since I was an IBM 370-148 computer operator"
> Sweden, UK expat

"Garry_1961" <> wrote in message
news:F1BCAF2B-CBF1-4A83-A30B-...
> I need a way of searching in "all sent items" from "all accounts". I can
> see "all sent email" in quick view but the "find" option there is greyed
> out.

Just type the search term into the 'Find a message' word-wheel. With the
right columns showing, you can see the subject of messages containing that
term, who it was to and when, and which account was used.

If you're still running XP like I am, you have to have Windows Search
installed for this to work. WS is integrated into Vista and W7.
--
Noel

I gathered that. However, surely the boys and girls and Microsoft dont think
its user friendly if I have to do 35 individual searches to find stuff. So, I
was hoping there was a way and dont understand why there is no "master
search" for this.

I have another work around, I can mark and copy all emails in quick view,
copy to a new temp folder and search that. However my email archive is now
137 476 emails going back to 1987. (I save everything), and its time
consuming to copy everytime.

So, is there a way???? Anyone??


"...winston" wrote:

> Afaik, Searching for content within a group of messages is not an available option in Quick Views. It is only available within an
> account's folder and also folders within the Storage folder. Quick Views is just a 'search' that finds, displays and allows the
> viewing of messages that actually reside elsewhere.
>
> --
> ...winston
> ms-mvp mail
>
> "Garry_1961" <> wrote in message news:F1BCAF2B-CBF1-4A83-A30B-...
> > I need a way of searching in "all sent items" from "all accounts". I can see
> > "all sent email" in quick view but the "find" option there is greyed out.
> >
> > I run 35 email addresses. As owner of several slightly related websites I
> > have emails similar to
> > ""
> > ""
> > ""
> > ""
> > ""
> > ""
> > The people that email me have clicked on an email address and I like to give
> > the impression they are dealing with a seperate department in each case for
> > each "shop". When I reply I need to do so from each individual account. In
> > "Live Mail" each account has its own sent items folder. I often need to refer
> > to old emails and I cant find the msoe or winmail find option for looking for
> > a text string in all "sent emails". Do I really have to do 35 individual
> > searches each time I need to refer to something that was written in an email.
> > (With 20-30 emails a day I can not remember which account things were sent
> > from).
> >
> > My work-around would be to do a bcc to a 36th email address and chose not to
> > save sent emails from each account. I can then bcc-receive all sent items
> > from all email adresses and archive them with a filter. However, I was hoping
> > that would not be necessary and anyway I would probably forget half the time
> > to click the bcc.
> >
> > Bottom line, how do I search for a text string in "all sent items"?
> >
> > Any help greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Garry Jones
> > "Now 30 years since I was an IBM 370-148 computer operator"
> > Sweden, UK expat
>
> .
>

I was only addressing the grayed-out menu option you noted and should have clarified that scope.

You can do what Noel suggested and use the Find a Message picker dialog box(a string can be entered) found in the center
pane(message pane).

--
...winston
ms-mvp mail

"Garry_1961" <> wrote in message news:3238D7C0-6C5A-46DA-9427-...
> I gathered that. However, surely the boys and girls and Microsoft dont think
> its user friendly if I have to do 35 individual searches to find stuff. So, I
> was hoping there was a way and dont understand why there is no "master
> search" for this.
>
> I have another work around, I can mark and copy all emails in quick view,
> copy to a new temp folder and search that. However my email archive is now
> 137 476 emails going back to 1987. (I save everything), and its time
> consuming to copy everytime.
>
> So, is there a way???? Anyone??
>
>
> "...winston" wrote:
>
>> Afaik, Searching for content within a group of messages is not an available option in Quick Views. It is only available within
>> an
>> account's folder and also folders within the Storage folder. Quick Views is just a 'search' that finds, displays and allows the
>> viewing of messages that actually reside elsewhere.
>>
>> --
>> ...winston
>> ms-mvp mail
>>
>> "Garry_1961" <> wrote in message news:F1BCAF2B-CBF1-4A83-A30B-...
>> > I need a way of searching in "all sent items" from "all accounts". I can see
>> > "all sent email" in quick view but the "find" option there is greyed out.
>> >
>> > I run 35 email addresses. As owner of several slightly related websites I
>> > have emails similar to
>> > ""
>> > ""
>> > ""
>> > ""
>> > ""
>> > ""
>> > The people that email me have clicked on an email address and I like to give
>> > the impression they are dealing with a seperate department in each case for
>> > each "shop". When I reply I need to do so from each individual account. In
>> > "Live Mail" each account has its own sent items folder. I often need to refer
>> > to old emails and I cant find the msoe or winmail find option for looking for
>> > a text string in all "sent emails". Do I really have to do 35 individual
>> > searches each time I need to refer to something that was written in an email.
>> > (With 20-30 emails a day I can not remember which account things were sent
>> > from).
>> >
>> > My work-around would be to do a bcc to a 36th email address and chose not to
>> > save sent emails from each account. I can then bcc-receive all sent items
>> > from all email adresses and archive them with a filter. However, I was hoping
>> > that would not be necessary and anyway I would probably forget half the time
>> > to click the bcc.
>> >
>> > Bottom line, how do I search for a text string in "all sent items"?
>> >
>> > Any help greatly appreciated.
>> >
>> > Garry Jones
>> > "Now 30 years since I was an IBM 370-148 computer operator"
>> > Sweden, UK expat
>>
>> .
>>

"...winston" <> wrote in message
news:...
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:47:51

Isn't it time you went to bed? Or have you just got up? Father Christmas
won't be coming for another 48 hours!
--
Noel

Duh! I didn't even see that option, I was looking in the menus.!

Thanks!

"Ildhund" wrote:

> "Garry_1961" <> wrote in message
> news:F1BCAF2B-CBF1-4A83-A30B-...
> > I need a way of searching in "all sent items" from "all accounts". I can
> > see "all sent email" in quick view but the "find" option there is greyed
> > out.
>
> Just type the search term into the 'Find a message' word-wheel. With the
> right columns showing, you can see the subject of messages containing that
> term, who it was to and when, and which account was used.
>
> If you're still running XP like I am, you have to have Windows Search
> installed for this to work. WS is integrated into Vista and W7.
> --
> Noel
>
>
>
> .
>