How to Search for Calendar Items

Have you ever placed an appointment on your calendar or accepted an invite but forgot when it was?  Want to find it quickly, instead of "digging around?"

Here's a helpful video to get you started from Microsoft and LinkedIn:

Use calendar search to find events and meetings in your Outlook calendar quickly. Use scope and more ways to refine your search.

Search your calendar

1. Select Calendar .

2. In the Search box, type the keywords you want to search.

   • The search result shows the list with your search keywords highlighted in yellow.

   • At first, Outlook limits the search results to 30 items. Check the bottom left corner of the screen for the number of items.

   • If you have more than 30, scroll-down to the bottom of the list and select More to see more results.

   • Double-click an item to open it.

   • Select the X in the Search box to close search and return to the previous view.

To narrow your search, type more keywords in the search box, or try one of these options:

Use quotation marks for phrases

1. In the Search box, type two or more search keywords in quotation marks (for example, “team review”).

   The search results will only include items that have team review as a phrase, and exclude items that only contain team or review.

Use AND, OR or NOT

1. In the Search box, include AND, OR, or NOT between the keywords.

   • AND – searches for items with both keywords.

   • OR - searches for items with either keyword.

   • NOT - searches for items that have the first keyword, but not the second keyword.

Note: AND, OR, and NOT must be in caps. Do not include quotation marks.