How to Find Email messages with Gmail Search

Like many PC users, I have amassed a very large collection of emails, sent and received. Every now and then I need to look up something from one of them and that is when search operators come in handy.

If you use Gmail, you probably know that there are a number of useful ways to make a search query to look for a particular email or related group of emails. Google has just made things even easier by adding some new operators. The most useful of the new search operators allow you to search size and time periods. These operators and some examples of their use are shown in the table below. A table of all the Gmail search operators can be found at this Google link

Google has also added the capability to search certain parts of words. Gmail now matches similar words that have the same root, letting you find a message even if you don't remember the exact words. Moreover, Gmail now even finds spelling mistakes. More about these developments is at this link.

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