Words in Outlook subject line contained in brackets not picked up by rules

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I just tested…I set up a search for messages containing notepad-plus, and I knew the messages were there. But in the messages, the text was contained within square brackets.

The search found no messages.

Does Outlook ignore text contained in square brackets?

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Chuck Billow

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What version of Outlook? What service pack? Is it up-to-date with patches?

Can you post the rule? Are there other rules that could have affected the message?

Joe

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Does search work with other messages? Are you indexing Outlook contents?

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Rui / Joe;

I found that it’s the square brackets “[]” that are causing the hassle.

Dunno as yet how to fix this. I’ve seen the done a lot before (brackets in the subject line), so I’m kinda curious how to fix this for now and future needs.

Chuck

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Would this work?

Create a rule that would match any of the following in the subject:

searchword
[searchword
searchword]
[searchword]
32220-olrule

Not the most elegant of solutions but may do what you want.

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I’ll try that a try Brown. Thanks.

Chuck

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That worked. Thanks!~

Chuck

Chuck Billow

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Glad to be of help Chuck.

Remember to select stop processing any more rules in the rule you create.

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Gotcha.

Chuck

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