need advanced Outlook rules help please

[Cheryl Larson]

Hello. I need an Outlook rule that looks for two phrases in the body of
a message. I enter the first phrase to look for and then add the
second phrase, it adds it as an OR statement instead of an AND statement.

Is it possible to do this? So it looks for "thistext" AND "thistext"???

Second question: Is it possible (in a rule) to look for a phrase using
a wildcard like an asterisk? For instance, a rule that looks for "FIRST
NAME: M*" in an emailed form??

Thanks

 

[Brian Tillman]

Hello. I need an Outlook rule that looks for two phrases in the body
of a message. I enter the first phrase to look for and then add the
second phrase, it adds it as an OR statement instead of an AND
statement.
Is it possible to do this? So it looks for "thistext" AND
"thistext"???

This can be done with multiple rules.

Second question: Is it possible (in a rule) to look for a phrase
using a wildcard like an asterisk? For instance, a rule that looks
for "FIRST NAME: M*" in an emailed form??

The strings in rules are already wildcards. In other words, if you look for
the string "bat", the rule will find "dingbat", "batwing", "combatant", and
"abattoire" as well. So, specifying a string of "FIRST NAME: M" will do
what you describe.

 

[Cheryl Larson]

Thanks very much for your response.

This can be done with multiple rules.



The strings in rules are already wildcards. In other words, if you look
for the string "bat", the rule will find "dingbat", "batwing",
"combatant", and "abattoire" as well. So, specifying a string of "FIRST
NAME: M" will do what you describe.