Windows – How to exclude certain email folders from being searched in Outlook 2013

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Email searches in Outlook 2013 work as expected. I am trying to refine it by excluding certain folders by default. I was hoping I could uncheck certain folders in Control Panel > Indexing Options > Outlook. Unfortunately, the checkbox is for Outlook itself. I can either search Outlook or not. There is no refinement beyond that. Is there another way to exclude searching of specific folders?

Best Answer

You can use either Advanced Search or create a Search Folder that will include only required folders and search against this Search Folder.