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From: pmad on 9 Feb 2010 14:00 Someone I'm helping has Outlook 2007 under Windows XP. He is unable to search e-mail folders for "sent by" or "keywords" or other filters. What I mean is that if he selects "All Mail Items" and moves the mouse to the search tool (the top of the screen with the magnifying glass icon) and then clicks on the 2 drop down arrows (with the hover text "Expand the Query Builder", all those query boxes are grayed out. Can anyone tell how he would enable them so that he can do fast searches of his mails in Outlook? Is this something to do with the indexing service on his PC? If so, how does he find out if it's installed and indexing properly. Is indexing a standard component on Windows XP or is it an additional download? Thanks Peter
From: neo on 9 Feb 2010 17:46 Windows Search 4.0 needs to be installed. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/default.mspx If it is installed, it will be listed in Add/Remove programs. Another way to tell if it is installed is that there will be a new icon in the control panel named Indexing Options. <pmad(a)btinternet.com> wrote in message news:OlseoobqKHA.5940(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Someone I'm helping has Outlook 2007 under Windows XP. > > He is unable to search e-mail folders for "sent by" or "keywords" or other > filters. > > What I mean is that if he selects "All Mail Items" and moves the mouse to > the search tool (the top of the screen with the magnifying glass icon) and > then clicks on the 2 drop down arrows (with the hover text "Expand the > Query Builder", all those query boxes are grayed out. > > Can anyone tell how he would enable them so that he can do fast searches > of his mails in Outlook? > > Is this something to do with the indexing service on his PC? If so, how > does he find out if it's installed and indexing properly. Is indexing a > standard component on Windows XP or is it an additional download? > > Thanks > > Peter > > >
From: pmad on 10 Feb 2010 07:40 Many thanks for this. Appreciate it. Presumably, he can set up indexing options to index all his networked documents can he? I imagine this is done via the Control Panel? I'll install it on an XP machine here in the office and will check out how to set up the appropriate indexing options so that it indexes both the "My Documents" folder as well as Network folders also. Sincerely Peter "neo" <neo(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:u5aJCndqKHA.3848(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > Windows Search 4.0 needs to be installed. > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/default.mspx > > If it is installed, it will be listed in Add/Remove programs. Another way > to tell if it is installed is that there will be a new icon in the control > panel named Indexing Options.
From: neo on 10 Feb 2010 08:06 If memory serves me right, it doesn't setup by default to index network drives. Yes, many options to add/remove/modify and rebuild the index if one thinks it is acting goofy. <pmad(a)btinternet.com> wrote in message news:75EF7A1D-1AAA-4CF8-9B67-A944CA13557A(a)microsoft.com... > Many thanks for this. Appreciate it. > > Presumably, he can set up indexing options to index all his networked > documents can he? > > I imagine this is done via the Control Panel? > > I'll install it on an XP machine here in the office and will check out how > to set up the appropriate indexing options so that it indexes both the "My > Documents" folder as well as Network folders also. > > Sincerely > > Peter > > "neo" <neo(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:u5aJCndqKHA.3848(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> Windows Search 4.0 needs to be installed. >> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/default.mspx >> >> If it is installed, it will be listed in Add/Remove programs. Another >> way to tell if it is installed is that there will be a new icon in the >> control panel named Indexing Options. >
From: bernie2409 on 11 Feb 2010 17:09
Hello! It so happend that I as well had some issues with the Outlook 'instant' search. First it refused to perform a search, so I followed neo's reply and installed the Windows Search. And for some time that really worked. But at some point it stopped indexing new incoming mails... However, I did some further research, which unfortunately could really solve my problems. So I searched for alternatives and I quickly was suggested some interesting search plugins for Outlook, all promising to perform a better and faster a search. Out of all I found Lookeen a very good solution for my needs, and giving for once instant search results... If you might be interested more information here www.lookeen.net Regards Bernie "pmad(a)btinternet.com" wrote: > Someone I'm helping has Outlook 2007 under Windows XP. > > He is unable to search e-mail folders for "sent by" or "keywords" or other > filters. > > What I mean is that if he selects "All Mail Items" and moves the mouse to > the search tool (the top of the screen with the magnifying glass icon) and > then clicks on the 2 drop down arrows (with the hover text "Expand the Query > Builder", all those query boxes are grayed out. > > Can anyone tell how he would enable them so that he can do fast searches of > his mails in Outlook? > > Is this something to do with the indexing service on his PC? If so, how does > he find out if it's installed and indexing properly. Is indexing a standard > component on Windows XP or is it an additional download? > > Thanks > > Peter > > > > . > |