How to search for special characters in Outlook?

Please take a look:

If the word starts with a special character, then Instant Search will ignore this special characters as the index of Instant Search is word-based only. In that case, you’ll need to use Advanced Find instead. When you want to include words which start with special characters in your search query, you’ll have to use the Advanced tab of Advanced Find.

Open Advanced Find (shortcut key: CTRL+SHIFT+F) Select the Advanced tab Create the following search query Field: Subject Condition: contains Value:

Of course you’ll replace with your own search phrase containing your special characters.