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Outlook search not returning results from body of email
That’s a common issue lately with Outlook on Windows 11, especially on the newer 25H2 builds. What’s happening is that Outlook’s search index isn’t fully built or synced, so searches only return results from headers like sender or subject, not from the email body. The quickest fix is to rebuild the search index: go to Control Panel → Indexing Options → Advanced → Rebuild, then restart Outlook and give it some time to re-index all your mail. Also, make sure Outlook is included in the list of indexed locations and that Windows Search is turned on under Services. If you’re using an Exchange or Microsoft 365 account, you can also try switching to Server-based Search in Outlook’s search settings. This issue has popped up after several Windows 11 updates, so rebuilding the index or toggling that search mode usually gets things back to normal.
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After a lot of frustration due to outlook not searching the body of my emails for keywords and having tried suggestions that did not fix it, this did the job. Thank you very much.