How can I search Outlook, ignoring all emails in a particular folder?

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In my case, I need to search for an email from a specific person. However, this individuals user account is also associated with an auto-email process I have 1,000's of emails from this person, because of this process.

All of these emails are being copied, and marked as read, into a folder that I mostly ignore. When I attempt to search my email by this user's email address, I see these thousands of emails, and our former conversations are dispersed amongst these emails.

How can I search for this user, ignoring all emails within the folder that is catching all of the auto-emails that are being sent by this users email account?

RLH

Posted 2014-12-22T15:14:27.960

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Question was closed 2015-01-08T14:05:01.473

Answers

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Create a Search Folder that uses advanced criteria to include messages from all folders in your mailbox except the folder you wish to exclude, then perform your search inside of that search folder.

I say Reinstate Monica

Posted 2014-12-22T15:14:27.960

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Ok, I'll look into that. Sorry, this sounds like a simple solution. I'm semi-new to Outlook (because I had to use Lotus for the first 10 years of my career!) Thank you. – RLH – 2014-12-22T15:19:32.157

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