The supported wildcards for Search operations in Outlook Add-In include:
| Wildcards | Description |
* |
Any number of any characters. For example: Accounting* The above wildcard pattern returns search results for any messages or items that match the pattern "Accounting" followed by any number of any characters, found in any of the following fields (where applicable): Subject, From, To, Cc, Bcc, Content, or Attachment; (e.g., Accounting Meeting Minutes, Accounting Manager, Accounting Records, etc.). |
? |
Any one character. For example: user_group? The above wildcard pattern returns search results for any messages or items that match the pattern beginning with "user_group" followed by any one character, found in any of the following fields (where applicable): Subject, From, To, Cc, Bcc, Content, or Attachment; (e.g., user_groupA, user_group1, etc.). |
| NOTE | You can also use a combination of wildcards in a single expression. For example, if you wanted to
search all mailbox folder names beginning with any characters in the range of "A" through "K" inclusive followed by any number of any characters, you would enter the following wildcard combination: [A-K]* |