Searching for E‑mail

As with the People app, you search your e‑mail using the system‑wide Search capability, or contract. Put more succinctly, you search for content in the Mail app. This works as it does everywhere else in Metro: Just type Winkey + Q from within the Mail app, or do so from anywhere in the system and then choose Mail from the list of apps on the right. This displays the standard Search pane.

Now, just type in a search term. This can be part of an e‑mail message or subject line, or the name of a person who has sent you e‑mail (or received e‑mail from you). When you tap Enter, the search results appear within the Message pane of the currently selected account in the Mail app, as shown in Figure 8‑26.

Figure 8‑26: Search for e‑mail from anywhere in Windows 8.

Note that Search provides a history list of previously performed searches, and that this history is app‑specific. So when you search from Mail, this Mail‑specific history list appears below the Search box so you can re‑do the search at any time.