Search not working in Outlook 2019 since updating to Monterey 12.1 on the Mac

[SCSW_2021]

There appears from other sites to be a very widespread problem with search not working in Outlook - no results obtained in Monterey- since the latest OS update. Rebuilding spotlight does not work and many people cannot change to the new version of outlook as they are served by older versions of Exchange Server.

It looks like a bug, but any ideas gratefully received.

[#2]

just did the procedure for installing beta.It installed 16.59 and using also Monterey 12.2 no solution yet.Have you figured out any solution yet?

[#3]

16.57 on Monterey 12.2 works fine, both search in email and contacts are fine

[#4]

Running below commands helped on M1 MAC OS Monterey 12.3.1 and Outlook 365 v16.60 to trigger indexing to happen again and help search start working in finder for files & folder and emails in old outlook.

sudo mdutil -a -i off
sudo mdutil -a -i on