Outlook 2011 for Mac – search function only searches text of emails and not attachments

23. December 2012 · Write a comment · Categories: Outlook for Mac · Tags: , , , , , , ,
Hello,

I have had previous versions of Microsoft Outlook for Dell computers. The past few versions have all had a feature that has become essential for me. When using the general search function, if I typed in a few words it scanned text in the body of the emails, but also in attachments such as Excel, Word and PDF.

I have not been able to figure out how to do this on my 2011 for Mac. When I type in some words to search it only scans the body of the email and not any attachments. This is very difficult to use as is for my business. 

Is there some sort of setting I need to change to make the search function more robust? I tried adding Excel, Word and Adobe in Spotlight Privacy and then removing them to re-index, but that did not work. 

Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you. 

I can’t search my IMAP account in Outlook Mac 2011

04. December 2012 · Write a comment · Categories: Outlook for Mac · Tags: , , ,
I'm not able to use the search function in Outlook Mac 2011 (14.2.5) with my IMAP email account. I can see all my emails just fine, but when I search for something that I know should have hits, the results are completely blank. I've tried rebuilding the database, I've tried creating a new database and starting fresh, but nothing seems to work. I'm using a 27 in iMac with 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB of Ram, running OSX 10.7.5.

How to manage Contacts and groups

22. October 2012 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: , , , , ,
I can no longer manage my contacts.  There is no search function nor can I organize or find groups and categories.  All of this changed when Microsoft revamped contacts recently.  On my daughters computer (same - macbook pro) it allows management of contacts but can't manage on my computer.  Why and how do I fix this?

Outlook search – not for root

13. October 2012 · Write a comment · Categories: Outlook for Mac · Tags: , , , , , , ,

Outlook search function doesn't work for root user on OSX 10.8.2. Spotlight index is ok cause I can search and find emails via spotlight search. In addition the search functions work perfect with another admin user. Any idea?

search function not working for some contacts in outlook 2011….

25. September 2012 · Write a comment · Categories: Outlook for Mac · Tags: , , , , , , ,
all of a sudden outlook search can't find some of my contacts, some it finds, the contacts are in the addressbook and i can get to them by sending an email and opening the contact card that way, but search won't work. i haven't upgraded outlook or using it with the cloud, it just stopped all of a sudden. when i search via spotlight the contact comes up with " outlook cannot open the file because it is not associated with the default identity" what can i do?

i am using osx 10.7.5

Search in Outlook for Mac 2011 not returning all emails.

23. August 2012 · Write a comment · Categories: Outlook for Mac · Tags: , , , , , , ,
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

How can I look at archived emails by page instead of a calendar in my inbox subfolders

07. June 2012 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail · Tags: ,

We used to be able to flip throuogh page after page and just scan the titles - I can't remember the subject or date specific enough to use the search function and with 177 e-mails stored in this folder it takes forever to look month by month. There are 10 years of e-mail stored in there.

Personally I can't stand this format that is so not user friendly

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