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So you’ve had your Gmail account for a couple years now and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to locate specific e-mails when you need them. No worries; let’s review a few useful search tips that will help.

Let’s say you’re only interested in browsing through e-mails sent to you by Mary. In your Gmail search box, you’ll want to type in from:Mary.

If you’re looking for an e-mail in which you used a specific phrase (say, something like …. “and she was totally eating lots of glass grasshoppers”), then you’ll want to type “and she was totally eating lots of glass grasshoppers” into the search box — quotes included.

If you’re ever interested only in viewing e-mails that had attachments, type the following into your Gmail search box: has:attachment. And if you’re looking for an e-mail from Robert that came with an attachment, type in from:Robert has:attachment.

Perhaps you’d like to only look through e-mails sent to you after the first of September. In your search box, you’ll want to type in after:2008/09/01. And let’s take this tip one step further; if you were looking only for e-mails sent to you after the first of September and in which snowboarding was mentioned, you’d want to type in: snowboarding before:2008/09/01.