When search fails in Outlook<article>
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<p>Reader Abby Conrad has a problem with a forgetful email client. She writes:</p>
In the last week or so I’ve been trying to search for messages in Microsoft Outlook and it shows no results, even when I can scroll through my inbox and find a message from the sender I’ve searched for. What’s wrong?
<p>Outlook, like the Mac OS and some other apps, uses OS X’s Spotlight feature to catalog its messages. When you search for a sender, recipient, or word within a message, Outlook turns to Spotlight’s index to find it. Given that, my first thought is that the index of your Microsoft User Data folder is corrupt in some way.</p><p>But before dispensing the usual advice, let’s look at a couple of things that are sure to cause the problem.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2599995/when-search-fails-in-outlook.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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When search fails in Outlook
