Thanks folks, that trick of highlighting messages with attachments worked
well and I found what I wanted quite easily - however, I'll also make sure
to save all the messages to a different folder as Bruce suggested because I
don't want to lose them.

Thanks again,

Pete

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
...for US$25.00.

Ron Sommer wrote:
http://www.oehelp.com/OEX/Default.aspx
This program will save all attachments so that you could search for
the attachment.

"Pete Zahut" dont@bother wrote in message
...
I've got over 3000 mail messages in my OE Inbox, some of them with
attachments. I now need to find a particular message with a
Microsoft Powerpoint attachment, but it's from a couple of years
ago and I can't remember who sent it to me, what date it was, or
the subject line - nor can I remember what the Powerpoint file was
called. I will recognise it when I see it but is there any way I can
search
by attachment, ie, do a search for *.pps in the inbox? I must
stress, the attachment has not been saved to my hard drive as such,
but is still an attachment to an email - in other words, I did not
right-click on the attachment and select either "Save" or "Save
As". It is just a mail message with a paperclip icon.

Going to Start Search Files and Folders and searching for *.pps
only turns up the 18 files I have in My Documents, not the
hundred(s) I have as
mail attachments.

TIA,

Pete