Frank wrote:

I'm not sure what I am using.

Apparently you're using the web interface that Microsoft provides.

I went to Google, signed up for groups and somehow found
"Outlook-General". Couldn't find "New Users".

There is no such group. You posted this and your previous message in the
microsoft.public.outlook newsgroup.

So...Decided to compare "General" vs. "General".
Anyway the posts (in "General") were different than the posts in this
one although some were identical.

Right. microsoft.public.outlook and microsoft.public.outlook.general are
two different newsgroups in which some messages are cross- or multiposted.
Originally, m.p.o was not suppsed to hold any messages at all, just be a
link in the hierarchy, but people didn't look farther down the chain for the
..general group and started posting here. Now m.p.o and m.p.o.general are
used interchangeably.

Totally confused about what I'm doing.
Know this doesn't belong here - but I also don't know where to go for
basic advice on how to use this discussion group thing.

You're in the right place to ask a question about outlook itself. I don't
use the web interface (I use a real newsreader), so I can't answer a
question on why the web interface displays searches as it does.
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Brian Tillman