Unknown: In this video, we'll go through the search function of
Gmail. So Gmail is part of the Google Suite. And as you might
know, Google is a very powerful search engine. So Gmail,
therefore is also going to be pretty powerful with a search.
So the search box is at the top here.
And there are different ways to search, the first way you can
search is by people's emails. And if you just start typing in
an email, let's type in Alex, it'll already pull up Alex's
email. So I'm going to press the Tab key or the right arrow key,
and press Enter.
And that will pull up all the emails that are from or to Alex,
and then have Alex's email address in them.
Let's have another go.
Let's type in Peters email address this time.
And you can see all the emails in a split second pop up that
have Peters name in them.
You can also search just by people things.
If you're just typing typing Alex, then all emails which have
the word Alex in it will pop up. So if you've come from Outlook,
or you love folders, and love organizing, you might have been
used to having a folder for every client, or having a folder
for different people. So this is one of the key differences as
well with Gmail is you don't need to now create folders with
people's names on them. Because in a split second, just like we
saw with Alex, you can pull up all the emails with that
person's name.
Another way you can search just as you do in Google is just by
typing keywords in. So for example, I want to find an
email, which has Peter Hazel and Regina in it. And I think it was
about annual leave. So if I just put in Peters name that will
work and will find everything with the web, Peter. But there's
42 emails and I don't want to go through all those. Let me also
type in Regina and Hazel, and annual leave.
And that narrowed it down to 14 emails.
So that's another way to search.
Let's go back to the inbox.
One of my favorite ways to search as well is using the has
semicolon. So if I type in has, I can type in has an attachment.
It will pull up everything that has an attachment. And the other
thing I like to do is search by colored stars. So let's see has
a blue staff. This is my search history here.
And immediately everything that has have a blue star on it has
just been popped up there.
If you do want to go into more advanced search functions, at
the right hand here, right hand side of the search bar, there is
a little arrow, if you click this arrow here, it will then
bring a drop down. And you can search specific emails that were
from someone to someone with a subject line, which includes
specific words, or which don't include specific words. You can
also search by different sizes, and by different dates. And so
this date one might be might be very helpful for some.
And here is the Attachment button as well. If you do want
to search for attachments,
let's just get out of it.
And one final way to search that I find useful is
things like spreadsheets or documents. So if I know that I'm
looking for an email that had a spreadsheet in it, I can also
type in pairs and type in spreadsheet,
for example, and that'll pull up the emails that have
spreadsheets, so have a look there. This one has two
spreadsheets here.
And the second one here also has a spreadsheet in there as well.
So that is a couple of ways that you can use search in Gmail. I
hope that's been helpful.
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