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URGENT: How to search and copy (not move) found messages to new folder?

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rbrook1
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I have to search for key words in folders with 500-1,000 emails each. Then I need to copy the resulting emails to a new folder where I can review them later for submission in a legal discovery request.

I seems like this used to be straightforward. I'd search, get a list of found emails, and I could then just copy them to a new folder. When I just tried this, everything seemed to have changed. My options are now to Move the found emails to a different folder or to Save as Search Folder, which doesn't help me at all.

If I move the emails to a new folder, I have lost the integrity of my original folder.

Please advise? I find it hard to believe that there is no longer any way to copy over search results.

I have to search for key words in folders with 500-1,000 emails each. Then I need to copy the resulting emails to a new folder where I can review them later for submission in a legal discovery request. I seems like this used to be straightforward. I'd search, get a list of found emails, and I could then just copy them to a new folder. When I just tried this, everything seemed to have changed. My options are now to Move the found emails to a different folder or to Save as Search Folder, which doesn't help me at all. If I move the emails to a new folder, I have lost the integrity of my original folder. Please advise? I find it hard to believe that there is no longer any way to copy over search results.

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sfhowes
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If you enter text in the Quick Filter Bar, buttons appear to filter by Subject, Body etc., and the results can be copied by right-clicking, Copy To. See picture.

rbrook1
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Thanks for the quick reply. Unfortunately, my search is much too complicated for a quick filter. I have do an "or" search for 12+ possible key words in the From field of my Inbox and subfolders, and then again separately in the "to" field on my Sent folder and subfolders.