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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...
Ooutlook has an option 'new outlook' (top right corner). switching to this fixed the search for me.
timsharpe What happens is that "New outlook" has no local storage whatsoever. So it always searches on the server.
So, as long as all your email is on the server and you're online, search will work.
If you need to search historic inboxes in your local machine or you need to search while in offline mode, then New outlook is dead in the water for search.
Essentially it's equivalent to open outlook web and searching there (which already worked).