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There's a good chance you have a scarily large number of email messages squirreled away in Gmail's nooks and crannies. Even if you've moved messages out of your inbox and into one or more labels, deleted messages you don't want, and reported all that spam, finding a particular message is often a real needle-in-a-haystack exercise. Fortunately, Gmail comes with a power Search tool that can help you quickly and easily find any message anywhere it's located within Gmail.

You search Gmail using the big Search Mail text box at the top of the page. You can use one of these two methods:

 Use the text box to enter some text. It can be a word, part of a word, or a phrase that matches the content of the message you want to find. As you type, Gmail works in the background, looking for emails that match, and then displays those matches in a list. (See Figure 2-21.) When you see the message you want, click it.

 Click Show Search Options. The options are pointed out in Figure 2-21, which gets you face-to-face with the dialog box shown in Figure 2-22. Use one or more of the fields to enter the criteria for the message or messages you want to locate, and then click Search.

FIGURE 2-21: When you enter search text into the Search Mail text box, Gmail displays a list of messages that match.

FIGURE 2-22: Click Show Search Options to use this dialog box for more targeted searches.