I have a user on an iMac running Mountain Lion and Office for Mac 2011.  When he is using Outlook, and goes to do a general search, it only returns emails back to a certain date.  However, if you scroll through his Inbox, there are clearly MUCH older emails that his search did not find as results that it should have.  Any reason why his search isn't finding all of the emails that it should be?

For example, in the Search box he'll type 'Bob' so he can find all emails that Bob sent him.  When he does the search, it will only return emails from Bob going back a couple of months.  However, if you search the inbox manually by sorting using "From", and look at all the emails sent by Bob there are emails that date back years.  So, why is the search function only returning recent emails and not all the emails?

Thanks in advance!
LG

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