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1. Go to AOL Mail. 2. Next to the search box, click the Drop down icon . 3. Select the part of your account you want to search. 4. Click the Search icon.
• To find an exact phrase, put quote marks around your search terms. For example, use "Charlie and the Chocolate factory" to find content for the movie. You can also use hyphens to connect a phrase such as brother-in-law. • To exclude specific words in your search, type a minus sign (-) in front of the search term.
You can even refine your search using filters. In the AOL app, tap the Search icon. Enter a search term, like a sender name or keyword from the message you're looking for. Tap Search. The messages that match your search terms will be listed as search results. The AOL app also provides these filtering options to refine your search:
Basic search - Enter keywords in the top search bar, then click the Search icon Search by sender - When viewing a list of emails, mouse over 1 and click the Search icon Search with a single criteria
To find an exact phrase, put quote marks around your search terms. For example, use "Charlie and the Chocolate factory" to find content for the movie. You can also use hyphens to connect a phrase such as brother-in-law. To exclude specific words in your search, type a minus sign (-) in front of the search term.
[2] [3] Search operators are used to refine a search when a simple keyword search provides too many unwanted results. [4] Although the exact functionality of each search engine is determined by its developers, phrase searching is normally accomplished by wrapping the desired phrase in quotation marks. [5]
The word boundary between such numeric portions and an alphabetic portions may include grey-space or not, but a phrase search turns off portioning, because it is an "exact phrase search", the words in the phrase matching only alphanumeric words delimited by grey-space. Words joined only by non-alphanumerics are treated like a phrase.
Keyword searches give you a wide variety of results without having to perform an advanced search. You are able to search less and discover more! Type a desired word or phrase in the AOL Search field and hit the Enter key on your keyboard or Click the Search button. AOL Search will find the info you want.