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splasch
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Jan 13, 2019

Outlook for Mac 2019 - Search not working :-(

Hi there New contributor - I have just upgraded Office 2016 for Mac to Office 2019 for Mac.  The Spotlight Search option in Outlook no longer works - I get no results, even when I am looking at an e...
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maxmueller_89
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Mar 04, 2019
We gotta wait for this probably: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/search-doesn-t-work-in-outlook-for-mac-after-macos-upgrade-b73de6f1-aeb9-4720-bbbe-de65ab50012e
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cbarrick1
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Jul 22, 2020

I think this is working now. But you have to also do the MacRumors fix to "rebuild the spotlight search index of Outlook" maxmueller_89 

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    cbarrick1
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    Jul 28, 2020

    cbarrick1I can confirm that this is working now--after upgrading to MacOS Mojave 10.14.6 you then need to reindex the message folders with spotlight as outlined here https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/rebuild-spotlight-search-index-on-mac/

     

    I am running Outlook for Mac 16.39 (20071300)

     

    . . . now if I could only get some help in creating a Smart Folder that has all items in both Sent and Inbox 😕

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