How can I search for emails I sent to someone in Outlook?

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In Outlook 2010 I often need to search for emails sent to someone from me.

According to this Outlook support page, I should use:

to:bobby

However that only works if I'm searching only in the "Sent Items" folder.

Since I don't have that setting turned on (nor do I want to change that setting), that search ends up showing me all emails sent to Bobby - from both myself and other people.

The best alternative I've come up with is:

to:bobby from:richard

Which is quite a lot to type just to achieve this and still ends up showing me emails if the sender has the same forename (or surname) as I do.

Guesses such as from:me and in:sent haven't worked.

Is there a better way?

Richard

Posted 2016-04-18T11:01:55.057

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a custom search saved in the search folder would just as well. – Sun – 2016-04-18T15:58:16.117

Answers

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Typical, one minute after I post the question, I find the answer:

to:bobby folder:sent

will show only emails to Bobby from me.

Richard

Posted 2016-04-18T11:01:55.057

Reputation: 4 197