CAN'T FIND A GMAIL - USE BOOLEAN OPERATORS TO HELP YOU LOCATE HIDDEN EMAILS

Have you ever deleted, put an email in a label or just simply lost track of an email?  Your Gmail is powered with the Google search engine giving you awesome searching abilities right inside your inbox.

With the help of Gmail search operators, you can find practically any email you have lost.  There are some great operators to help you locate your missing emails.  The video from Google Gooru takes a look at some great Boolean operators that will help you locate what's missing.

BOOLEAN OPERATORS

OR - Search for messages matching term A or B (OR must be in all CAPS)

" " (Quotes) - Used to search for an exact phrase

( ) - Used to group words

AND - Search for messages matching term A and B (by default, Gmail does an "AND" search when two commands are together so you don't need to type out the word)

GMAIL OPERATORS

TO: - Used to specify a recipient

FROM: - Used to specify the sender

IS:IMPORTANT - Search within messages that Priority Inbox considers important

IS:STARRED - Search for messages that are/were starred

IS:UNREAD - Search for messages that are unread

CIRCLE: - Search for messages that were sent from someone in a particular Google+ circle

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