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Search emails for attachment based on file names (partial or full name)

Anonymous
2023-04-28T11:49:27+00:00

Hello,

Is there any way to search emails for any specific attachment based on file name? As of now, I have googled the solution and found couple of ways to search emails where most popular one is to use search tool and using refine field "Attachment Contains" and write the file name in this field.

However, using this technique provide me the list of emails either the search criteria exists in file name or in file content. For example, if I am looking for a file named "season.xlsx" then using this technique give me list of all emails that may have "season" in their file name or in file content (in file)

To further limit this and my requirement, I need solution to search only those emails for attachments having file names asked in query. For example, if I am searching for emails' attachment with search criteria "Season" (partially or full) then result of email list should only include emails having attachment name (partially or full) "season" and not the content of files which includes "season."

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  1. Robert Sparnaaij [MVP] 18,296 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2023-04-28T14:40:26+00:00

    You can't directly search for the attachment name, but you can further limit the results by specifying the attachment extension by typing the following in the Search field;

    ext:xlsx

    You can combine this with an attachment content search as well. For more details see; Search for attachments by file extension or words within the attachments - MSOutlook.info

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