Works fine here. No need to use the Query builder. Have you tried any of the
now well documented troubleshooting steps? Start here, realizing that
Instant Search on Win XP is problematic at best:
http://www.msoutlook.info/question/47

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Steve JORDI" wrote in message
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Hi,

[WinXP Pro SP2 / Outlook 2007 / No other MS Office apps]

I'm trying to search for all my contacts that have, say, an email
address containing "gmail".

I go to Contacts:
Then in the Instant Search I show the query builder so it displays
some additional field criterias.

In the "E-mail" field, I type in "gmail" (without the quotes)

It always returns "0 occurences" when I have plenty of them.

Should I use something like wildcards? I tried with "*" but nothing
works.

What is strange is that it looks like it looking up only emails
addresses STARTING with "g", then "gm", etc...

When I type in "g", it shows me contacts whose address emails are
starting by a "g" (the firstname, not the domain or anything in the
middle of the address").
So it shows "Georges@...", "Gael@...", etc.
As soon as I add the "m" of "gmail", then I have no occurences because
no-one is named "gm*".

Any clue on how to fix this?

I tried all the suggestions to "fix the search" bug in Outlook 2007,
reindexed everything, etc... but nothing helps.

Thanks for any help.

Sincerely,
Steve JORDI

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