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I want to filter all mail whose subject starts with [SomeWord], so I wonder is it possible using regular expression(such as ^\[SomeWord\]) for inbox rule of outlook.

I'm using outlook web aceess, not outlook client.

Cfinley
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Kane
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    "^[SomeWord]" is not the regular expression you are looking for – Jürgen A. Erhard Dec 09 '10 at 15:18
  • @jae, thanks for pointing out the wrong usage of sample regular expression. Not sure what "jedimindtrick" means, will google it. :) – Kane Dec 09 '10 at 15:33
  • it's a Star Wars reference http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?JediMindTrick – Nifle Dec 09 '10 at 18:21
  • There is [a Stack Overflow question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3865500/regular-expression-rules-in-outlook-2007) which has some solutions for doing this. – yeedl May 02 '11 at 01:11

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I'm sorry but currently Outlook rules (up to Outlook 2016) don't support regular expressions.

The current way rules work, are that they can look for [SomeWord] in any place in the subject, but you can't force it so that it only happens as the first word.

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