About Personal.cloud Search

Last published : Apr 17, 2026
Personal.cloud provides a range of search options and features:
  • Quick Search provides a simple search for message content.
See Using Quick Search.
  • Advanced Search provides multiple search options to let you target a search on specific message components such as sender, recipient, or subject. You can also search on message attributes such as the sent date or attachment type.
See Using Advanced Search.
  • Both Quick Search and Advanced Search support phrase searches, Boolean searches, wildcard searches, and proximity searches.
See Search syntax.
  • Personal.cloud drops some common words from searches. These words are known as stop words. Personal.cloud also omits many special characters from searches.
See About stop words and special characters in searches.
  • You can use search result filters to narrow down the results.
See Using Search Filters.
  • You can save your favorite searches, to let you re-run them easily.
See Creating Saved Searches.
  • Personal.cloud provides the ability to search those languages that contain double-byte characters, such as Japanese and Chinese.
See Double-byte character set searches.
  • You can perform enhanced searches in Japanese, if your company subscribes to this add-on feature.
See About enhanced searches in Japanese.
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