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Outlook search not working: tried everything, please help. Super frustrated ;-(
Same here. I did not reinstall Office or the OS, that was going to be the next step. Thank you for detailing that so it will save me going through that agony.
Issue started about a month ago, around the time I upgraded my Surface Pro X to Windows 11. Since then I have scoured the web for helpful workarounds (rebuilding index, mail repair tool, OST repair, reinstall Outlook and many other smaller things). Nothing worked and it is debilitating to lose such a foundational feature!
Was going to do the uninstall/reinstall Office next but tried another googling, this time specifying Surface Pro X - and found your post. I best it is an ARM specific bug but not sure Microsoft even knows about it or if anyone is trying to fix...
My workaround for searching my mail is to do it in the Windows Mail app or in Gmail...
Please let me know if you end up getting any better results - thank you!
Link to the other thread: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/outlook-search-not-working-tried-everything-please/5d3e8ef3-0025-4879-9c2f-c4031d089fd8
As a measure of last resort, I signed up for the 'insider programme' of both Windows and Office. The beta versions of both (only the earliest releases, which is not recommended by MS) eventually gave me back my search functionality... 🤔
Now I just suffer from BSOD once every day... 😉
