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From: Josh on 11 May 2010 15:17 I was hoping to get some clarification on this issue. We are running Outlook 2007 on Windows XP SP3. When we moved from Outlook 2003 to 2007 we noticed a change in how Outlook searches for email. We are also using cache mode now as well with 2007, not with 2003. Basically, you can't use wildcards in Windows Search, and any search acts as if there is a “*” wildcard at the right edge of the search term, but not at the left edge. For example, , searching for “vand” will bring up emails with “Dave Vandertie” in the “From:” field, but miss emails with “dvandertie(a)ridgedx.com” in the From: field, while searches for “dvand” will produce the inverse result. I hope I explained that properly. What users are starting to notice is that the new search behaves slightly differently than the old search. Referring again to the example above, on a Outlook 2003 computer, if you search for “vand” you do get both “Dave Vandertie” and “dvandertie(a)ridgedx.com” in the results. On our 2007 computer you get only “Dave Vandertie” and not “dvandertie(a)ridgedx.com”. You can't use wildcards in either search, so that is not the issue. It's that users are used to searches working as if there were a * wildcard on both ends of the search string, and that is no longer true now? This has caused some consternation for those who rely heavily on Outlook searches
From: DennisH on 11 May 2010 17:19
Hello Josh, as far as I understood it, your problem is to have your search term included in the results no matter in what 'combination' it is used (-->vand = Dave Vandertie AND the related email-adress). Am I right here? Unfortunately I can't tell you anything more about the Windows Search since we switched to a Outlook search add-in called 'Lookeen' (http://www.lookeen.net) a while ago, along with the move to Outlook 2007 as well. Usually when I now search for a person's name it gives me all the email it's mentioned in and the adress, too. And that pretty fast btw :) So if it's in any way possible to install 3rd party software within your system/network, it might be worth a look. We were very satisfied with the improvements it brought. Greetings Dennis H. -- DennisH ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DennisH's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/166701.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/ms-office-support/1336061.htm http://forums.techarena.in |