Bruce suggested different folders, not folder. I am sure that your Sent
Items also has a lot of messages. Move messages to new folders for it also.
You should also compact after moving messages from the Inbox and Sent items.

You can add Attachment and Size columns to the message list pane. Clicking
on Attachment header will sort by all messages with attachments. Then look
at the size. A pps attachment would be a large size.
You could click on Size header and look at the larger size messages.
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Ron Sommer

"Pete Zahut" dont@bother wrote in message
...
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