Using Search

With an Outlook account, you are allowed 15 GB of email storage space per account. Microsoft 365 subscribers are allowed 50 GB of space, but many accounts have more storage than this. I have 1 TB of storage on the cloud with my subscription. With this much storage for our emails, most of us have no reason to delete any of our emails for storage reasons.

In most cases, you can now keep all the emails you want as not only can the cloud manage this, but Outlook’s Search feature has been vastly improved. When I need to search for an old email, I usually find it by simply typing an email ID or topic in the Search box and my email will appear, without using the advanced search feature.

The Search box is at the top of the Outlook window in the title bar, to the right of Quick Access Toolbar, if you have this toolbar docked above the ribbon, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 10.1 – Search box

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