Unlike in Word, Excel and PowerPoint, I don't seem to have an option to save my emails as pdf-files.

Is this correct and if so; How can I save emails as pdf-files anyway?

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When I open a pdf-attachment from Outlook via a double click, it opens full screen and I don’t seem to have any options at all.

This used to open an application with lots of options and not in full screen so that I could multitask and easily copy-paste from it and there also was a printing option.

How can I get all these options back and stop it from opening pdf-files in full screen?

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When I do a search in Outlook via Instant Search, does Outlook then also search for the text within attachments such as pdf-files?

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Outlook can find emails with one or more attachments by specifying the "Has Attachments" option.

But how can I search for a specific type of attached file?
e.g. search for emails having .docx, .pdf, .xlsx or .zip files etc.

Is it also possible to only search for text within an attachment and not within the message body?

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In responds to enabling full text search within pdf-attachments, several readers asked how they could also preview these pdf-files directly in Outlook.

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For my job, I regularly need to do the same or very similar search queries in Outlook.

Some queries are a bit more complex so redoing them each time is a bit cumbersome.

Is there a way to save my Search queries so I can reuse them later rather than needing to redo them each time?

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I’ve been trying to use my mouse less for common computer tasks. With a little practice and the right keyboard shortcuts, this often ends up to be much quicker than using my mouse as well.

As I search through my emails on a regular basis, I was wondering whether there are any useful search shortcuts in Outlook?

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For the longest time, I’ve been using Advanced Find and enabled its Query Builder to perform searches with multiple criteria and Boolean statements.

This works quite well but it can sometimes be slow to set up such a search within the Advanced Find window.

Can I also perform Boolean and multi criteria searches in Outlook without using Advanced Find?

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Recently, some emails that I receive are directly delivered to the Deleted Items folder instead of being delivered to the Inbox.

I also fear that some messages are even permanently deleted without me knowing.

Why does this happen and how can I get everything delivered to my Inbox again?

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I heavily rely on the Search feature within Outlook to efficiently triage my emails. However, something appears to have been changed to how Search works. For instance;

• When I move messages from my Search results to a different folder, this isn’t directly reflected in the Search results anymore (when sorted by folder).
• Mailbox wide searches are always sorted by date instead of by folder.
• The Categories column isn’t shown even though it is added to the View.
• Categories are shown when the message is opened in the Reading Pane but I can’t remove them.

How I can I return Outlook’s Search behavior back to the way it was before?

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