Searching for subjects with multiple full stops

[Phil Mansfield]

Using Outlook 2007 SP2 on Vista SP2 running against an Exchange 2003 server.

How would I search for an email that has the subject: 1.2.3
I've sent myself a few test messages with the following subjects:
1.2.3
1.2.4
2.3.4

Outlook seems a bit random at being able to search for them. If I just
enter: 1.2.3 as the search term, I get the emails 1.2.3, 2.3.4, plus numerous
other emails that seem to have those number close to each other. If I change
the search to: subject: 1.2.3 then I get a couple of emails returned, but not
the ones that I actually want.

Apparently this did use to work correctly in Outlook 2003, and I have a user
who has hundreds of emails that use subject lines with numbers that have
multiple full stops, and she wants to be able to search them as she used to.

I've looked through the various docs on advanced searching of Outlook, and
none of them mention that the full stop is used as some kind of logical
operator, but I'm guessing it must be.

Anyone got any ideas on how I can get around this?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

The full stop is ignored as a single character.
Search as a string instead;
"1.2.3"

 

[Phil Mansfield]

Thanks, but it doesn't help.

I still get results for: 1.2.3, 2.3.4, as well emails that were received at
11:23, or say things like "let's meet at 2:30".