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title: "Outlook Full-Text Search: How Do I Search in Outlook Email Text?"
url: https://lookeen.com/blog/outlook-full-text-search-how-do-i-search-in-outlook-email-text
lang: en
description: "Looking for a specific sentence or word in a long email? Click here for the Outlook full-text search guide!"
author: "Froher Yosofy"
published: 2022-01-10T10:41:37+00:00
modified: 2026-11-11T04:32:45+00:00
---

# Outlook Full-Text Search: How Do I Search in Outlook Email Text?

How often do we misplace an email and feel relieved when, thanks to an optimal search solution, we finally find it again. Since 1970, these search engines have enabled us to retrieve our data within the shortest possible time. Without such a search engine, many of our files would disappear into the nirvana of our data. One of these search solutions designed to make our lives easier is [Outlook Full-Text Search.](https://lookeen.com/blog/what-is-full-text-search-2) Did you know that with Outlook Full-Text Search, you can search for individual keywords or phrases in your emails? Find out how this works for all common Outlook versions in this blog post. [Find all further benefits of Outlook full-text research here](https://lookeen.com/blog/what-advantage-does-full-text-search-offer).

Article title: Outlook Full-Text Search: How Do I Search Outlook Email Text? Excerpt 1 of 1: For many people, communication via Outlook / emails forms the basis of their daily work. As a result, long email conversations pile up, making it difficult to keep track of them. If you are looking for specific information in a long email conversation, it can help to search for a specific keyword or sentence. This is possible with the full-text search in Outlook. Please note that the Outlook full-text search does not (!) correspond to the standard [Outlook search](https://lookeen.com/solutions/outlook-search/outlook-search), which searches through all your emails. The full-text search refers to a single email or a single open email conversation.

[The best Outlook search Lookeen searches all your emails in seconds!](https://lookeen.com/solutions/outlook-search/outlook-search)

## How to Use the Outlook Full-Text Search

**Step 1:** Open the email you want to search in a new window. To do this, double-click the desired email.

**Step 2:** Click the magnifying glass icon or use the keyboard shortcut *CTRL+Shift+F*. You can now enter your keyword under the *Search* tab and search for it. Outlook automatically highlights the searched keyword in your email.

With these two simple steps, you have applied the full-text search in Outlook. Do you want to search all emails and possibly even your archives in Outlook? Then you should use the Lookeen search solution. [Click here for more information.](https://lookeen.com/solutions/outlook-search/outlook-search)

I hope this article has helped you apply the full-text search in Outlook. Do you have any further questions?

See you soon!