Hi,
Outlook used to have a great seach function. You could search in all kinds of ways, like From:abc Has:Attachment and it worked perfectly every time.
Now, in W11, it's this weird little bar up above the inbox and it simply Does. Not. Work.
It has one job. To find the things I need. It does not do that job.
Here's an example.
This is my inbox right now:
If I now search for emails from Louise, you would think it might find the two emails from Louise that you can see in my inbox.
Right? I mean, am I the crazy one, or does everyone agree that searching for Louise SHOULD find emails I have received from a person called Louise?
When I search for these emails, I get results from emails this very same Louise has sent me in the past, but I DON'T get results for things she has sent me today.
Again, am I crazy, or are the things I received most recently not the very things I am most likely to want to find?
If I'm lucky, today's emails from Louse will eventually end up in my search results. But today, they do not. It's like Microsoft has some giant database that it updates at its leisure using a typewriter, a fax machine, a dial-up modem, and some string, and it restricts its searches to that database, but doesn't bother to search stuff that is right there in my inbox. Cause that would be silly right?
Why would the the search behaviour have been changed to make it substantially LESS useful than it used to be?