Instant Search doesn’t display any results at all, only displays results before a certain date or always shows that there are items left to index. I let it index overnight but nothing has changed.How can I get it to completely index my messages?There are a couple of levels at which Instant Search in Outlook 2007, Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016 can break.You can troubleshoot Instant Search in the mentioned order in this article. Known issue?Unfortunately, there are regularly issues with the Search Index either on the Windows side or the Outlook side. Some of these bugs are relatively minor but on other occasions, it could prevent Outlook from showing any search results for certain configurations.You can check for any currently known issues regarding Search and other Outlook features on this page:. Marked for indexingIf the issue isn’t caused by any currently known issue, check whether the pst-file or mailbox has been marked to be indexed. Outlook 2007Tools- Options- Search Options In the Indexing section you can select which data file to index. Outlook 2010File- Options- section Search- button Indexing Options- button Modify- expand Microsoft OutlookIn the list that is shown under Microsoft Outlook, make sure that your pst-file or mailbox is displayed and selected.
If it is not listed, you’ll have to. Outlook 2013 / 2016 / 2019 / Office 365File- Options- section Search- button Indexing Options- button ModifyHere, make sure that Outlook is selected.Unlike in Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010, you cannot specify which mailboxes or pst-files in Outlook to index; You either index Outlook or you don’t.Locations selected to be indexed in Outlook 2007.Outlook selected as an Indexed Location in Indexing Options. Check for pst-file corruptionsIf your pst-file has been marked but Outlook doesn’t display the correct results, it usually means there is some corruption going on in your pst-file. In order to fix these you should scan your pst-file for errors with. You can find this file in the same folder as outlook.exe or use (free!) to locate it for you.Once repaired, open Outlook and leave it idle for some time.
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To see if everything has been indexed now use:. Outlook 2007Tools- Instant Search- Indexing Status. Outlook 2010 / 2013 / 2016 / 2019 / Office 365Click in the Search field in order to make the Search Tools tab visible in the Ribbon. Here click the Search Tools button and select the Indexing StatusWhen you have a big pst-file or mailbox, this indexing could take some time but if the number of items left to index doesn’t change after leaving your computer idle for over 30 minutes, something is wrong still. Disable and then re-enable Outlook or pst-file for indexingGo back to the Search Options and, depending on the version of Outlook that you are using, deselect Outlook or the data file that is giving you issues.
HKEYCURRENTUSER Software Microsoft Office 15.0 Outlook Security Outlook 2016, Outlook 2019 and Office 365. When you open now Outlook, the attachments which hold those extensions aren’t blocked by Outlook anymore. If you are not comfortable with manually editing the registry or prefer easier access to block/unblock attachments you. Fixing Instant Search. Outlook 2013 / 2016 / 2019 / Office 365 File- Options- section Search- button Indexing Options- button Modify. After this, open Outlook again and go back to the Search Options and select Outlook or the pst-file we just deselected. Leave the computer idle again and see if it will eventually reach the status.
Close Outlook and wait for about 5 minutes and also verify in Task Manager (CTRL+SHIFT+ESC) that on the Processes tab the outlook.exe process actually quits.You might get a lot of disk activity; this is the Search Indexer removing the indexed items from the Index.After this, open Outlook again and go back to the Search Options and select Outlook or the pst-file we just deselected. Leave the computer idle again and see if it will eventually reach the status of “0 items remaining.” Rebuild the indexIf it doesn’t, it might be that the Index itself has been damaged. In order to reset this, go to Control Panel- Indexing Options- Advanced- button Rebuild(Type “Indexing” in the Search field of Control Panel to quickly locate the applet.)This will rebuild the entire Index from scratch and depending on the amount of documents to be indexed, this could take quite long and degrade your system’s performance while the Indexer is still busy. I would recommend to have it rebuild itself overnight.Advanced Indexing Options allows you to Rebuild the Search Index. Troubleshoot email search resultsIf it still doesn’t work press the blue “Troubleshoot search and indexing” link.
This will start a troubleshooting wizard in which you can select the option “E-mail doesn’t appear in search results”.Troubleshooting wizard for Search and Indexing. Reinstall the Windows Search featureIf your installation of Windows Search got damaged, you can remove and reinstall it in the following way. Control Panel- Programs- Turn Windows features on or off. Deselect: Windows Search.
Press OK and wait until the installer is finished. Reboot your computer. Repeat the above steps to enable it again.Note: Windows Search can’t be uninstalled and reinstalled in Windows 10. Check Event Viewer and post in the Outlook forumStill running into indexing issues?It might be good to take a look in the and look for any errors logged by the “Search” or “Microsoft Outlook”.If the error logged there is not helpful to you, post it in the together with your configuration details in order to help you troubleshoot it.Last modified: December 5, 2018.
Hi,I have just upgraded my Office to 2019 (from 2016) on my iMac 27' (Late 2015). I run macOS Mojave.I use multiple desktops - and normally I have Outlook running on the first desktop.
When it's open and I 'slide' from the second desktop to the one with Outlook it lags a lot. I have no problems 'sliding' between other desktops.When I use Outlook for simple tasks - like creating a new email - it's slow (most of my typing has a delay).I thought it might have to do with the upgrade - so I made a complet new installation of Mojave and everything seemed to be great.just until I installed Office 2019. The same problems showed up again.Might be a graphical problem in Office.
Any suggestions are welcome!Thanks in advance!Best regardsHenrik. Hi Carlos,thanks for your reply.I have already tried with only one test-account (with only a few messages). That did not help.And it's not a sorting problem.I have always error logging disabled - so that's not the case here.As I write in my post - it seems more like a graphical problem.
I have tried installing the 2016 version again - and then there is no problems at all. So I'm quite sure it's related to the 2019-version.I will try the in-app support if nothing useful comes up here within a couple of days.Thanks again./hp. Hi,I have just upgraded my Office to 2019 (from 2016) on my iMac 27' (Late 2015). I run macOS Mojave.I use multiple desktops - and normally I have Outlook running on the first desktop. When it's open and I 'slide' from the second desktop to the one with Outlook it lags a lot.
I have no problems 'sliding' between other desktops.When I use Outlook for simple tasks - like creating a new email - it's slow (most of my typing has a delay).I thought it might have to do with the upgrade - so I made a complet new installation of Mojave and everything seemed to be great.just until I installed Office 2019. The same problems showed up again.Might be a graphical problem in Office.
Any suggestions are welcome!Thanks in advance!Best regardsHenrikJust know that you are not alone. If this isn't a 'known' problem for Microsoft it will be as soon as more Office 2019 adopters show up.
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This only happens in Outlook. No other Office products are affected as far as I can tell.My current system is better than most as I am running multiple PCI-E SSD's for my hard drives, I have 32G RAM, and an i7 8700K CPU.If you click on anything in Outlook there are huge delays, it switches to 'Not Responding' for about 15 seconds, and then finally works.I haven't found any solution so far, including starting in safe mode or anything else. Hopefully, sometime soon, someone smarter than I switches to 2019 and comes and tells us how to fix it. At my company, we just bought Office 2019 to replace our 2010 licenses. Several of us in the IT department have already upgraded to 2019, and this same problem is absolutely noticeable to us. When I switch between Inbox, Sent Items, Deleted Items, andchild folders under Inbox: all laggy, sometimes several seconds long. Typing when trying to compose a new message is lagging.
Switching between Mail and Calendar is very laggy. It is very annoying.
I am with you Henrik, it seems to be a graphical issue relatedto the animation transitions they have implemented. They are not fluid at all. If this is annoying to us in IT, I can only imagine how annoyed our users will be when we upgrade them.