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Outlook search is now totally useless
The search function is basically worthless at this point. I searched for an email I send out monthly with the exact same subject line each month. It took 5 minutes for the system to find any emails with this subject and it still only resulted in two emails from November 2022 as opposed to my most recent sent August 2024. Is MS doing ANYTHING to fix this issue that you know of? OlafGladAndBig
There is certainly nothing i can suggest. I suppose you can try the new app but its fairly hopeless too.
Outlook is just a shocking hopeless platform and should be killed off.
My problems.include:
- totally useless search function which just doesn't work
- useless filters which don't work and no way of changing/adjusting them.
- doesnt sort properly or give any options for sorting
- continually fails to connect when when you know you have internet working
- generally unfriendly application
I think the only option is to find a different email app.
Andrew
So I did the indexing suggestion and for now that seems to have fixed things. My search is almost instantaneous. It does warn the indexing could take a day or so. Mine took about an hour and I let it run in the background. Andrew_B_56
What exactly is the "indexing suggestion"?