Windows 10: Outlook Search Not Working

Hello, I'm having trouble with the search function in Outlook on my Windows 11 laptop. Whenever I try to search for emails or contacts, Outlook returns no results, even though I know the items are in my mailbox. I've tried rebuilding the search index and repairing my Outlook profile, but the search still doesn't work. Can someone please assist me in troubleshooting this issue?

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Disable new search bar in Outlook 365

OK. There is a way to disable this new search box in Microsoft Office 365. For Outlook:

1. Open Outlook 365.
2. On the lower left-hand corner click options.
3. In the User Interface options under the General Tab, click the checkbox Collapse the Microsoft Search box by default.
4. Click OK.

The search box will now disappear. However, disabling this option would only work on that application. If you open Microsoft Word or PowerPoint, you will need to do these same steps to disable the search box (if present) as well. Let me know if this works for you.

 

After windows 10 update search in outlook 2013 never completes

I've run into what I think is this same issue, although I'm not completely certain that it coincides with a Windows 10 update. I set up a user on a new Windows 10 Pro box, with Outlook 2013, and he found he was unable to search his PST files. We went through the whole standard list of troubleshooting search indexing options, including rebuilding the entire search index, without success. I also copied his PSTs to another system, and ran into the same issue, which eliminates disk errors, registry junk, and things unique to his machine. What finally worked for me were these steps:

1.In Outlook, go to Options -> Search -> indexing options -> Modify
2. Uncheck "outlook" and the folder under your user where your PST files are located
3. Close Outlook
4. Give it a few minutes for processes to exit
5. Restart Outlook
6. Go to Options -> Search -> indexing options -> Modify
7. Check the items you unchecked in step 2
8. Select something in your PST file and click search to bring up the search window
9. Select Advanced Find from the Search Tools pulldown
10. Perform your search.

After this I was able to search again using the quick search option at the top of the message list pane.

I suspect this toggled some internal switch in Outlook which the index rebuild didn't touch.

 

Outlook Search not working.

Hello,

The issue that you are experiencing might be caused by an Outlook conflict. For us to know more, please answer the following:

• Have you made any recent changes prior to the issue?
• For us to have a better image of your concern, could you please provide us a screenshot of the error that you are getting?
• Can you list down all the troubleshooting steps you've done so far?
• Which version of Outlook are you using?