Find All Related Messages

[kowalsky]

hi all,

I wonder if there is anyway one can change the default for the Advanced Find in case of a Find All Related Messages.

A little bit of context: when you right click a message in Outlook 2003 you can select from the drop down Find All -> Related Messages.

This automatically will launch an Advance Find window that has pre-set criteria in the Advanced Tab, namely:

Conversation is(exactly) [text] (the text being what it finds in the Subject: field).

I wonder if there any way to change this default setting to something else; in particular I would like to change the is(exactly) to is. This way I can bring back all e-mails in a conversation according to my definition of a conversation (all messages with RE: RE:RE, etc and not one single exchange),

Thanks,

kowalsky

[kowalsky]

In case anyone wants to know the answer to this one:

the default behavior cannot be changed - if youy need a Find ALL Related Messages including the previous exchanges based on the same Subject line, you have to use the Advanced Search and manage the query your self - namely change the Conversation contains [text] instead of the default Conversation is(exactly) [text],

kowalsky