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May 14th, 2007, 09:36 PM
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Contacts Search NOT WORKING in Outlook 2007 suddenly!
Use the Advanced Tab. If you look at the top of that dialog, it gives you a
choice of what type of Outlook Items to search. Select Contacts in that dropdown. When you do, the Field dropdown will present a flyout for "All Contact Fields." There you will find "Notes." -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Dualmonitors" wrote in message ... Russ: it's actually not that simple! May i illustrate please: In Contacts "mode", you have all the contacts on the right pane. you go to Tools at the top, the dropdown menu's 2nd option is Instant Search. the pull out menu to the right when you hover over the Instant Search shows multiple options where the last one is Advanced Find. when you select Advanced Find, you get a new pop up window. in that window, there are 3 tabs. the first tab is Contacts, the 2nd tab is More Choices, the 3rd tab is Advanced. the 1st tab (Contacts) does not seem to work for me at all as there is no such option for searching the "Notes" section. the 3rd tab, Advanced, asks you to start with defining a "Field" with a Field dropdown menu. However, when you drop down that menu, there is NO "notes" field. The option called "All Note Fields" has a pull out menu that allows you to select Contact, maybe that's the right one? or, alternatively, one other Field in the field dropdown is "Frequently Used Fields" where you can choose either Contacts or simply Notes. both sound correct to me. please realize that "Note" is probably incorrect but "Notes" is probably correct since the section in Contacts at the bottom where i put all my notes is actually called "Notes" plural. I suspect that "Note" is that other Outlook functionality called Note for taking notes. in any case, i've tried using that Advanced find and tried various Fields options but they do not work. i really really need this function badly for what i do daily and am really stumped. any help would be most appreciated. thank you! "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Just use the Advanced Tab, Look for Contacts, use the Field dropdown to select "Notes," then "contains" and enter what you're searching for.. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Dualmonitors" wrote in message ... just to see if Russ and/or others have missed my previous posting. thx. sorry for the repeat. "Dualmonitors" wrote: Oops...Russ, did you see my post immediately preceding your last post? i think we might have posted almost at the same time so you might not have had the opportunity to read my last post. thx. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Perhaps, but that assumes facts not yet in evidence. My point was that even though Instant Search fails to find data in the Notes field, using the Advanced Find dialog will still pull it up. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote in message ... advanced find uses the search index - so it sounds like the index is corrupt and needs rebuilt. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/ Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/ Outlook Tips by email: Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter: ** Please include your Outlook version, Account type, and Windows Version when requesting assistance ** "Dualmonitors" wrote in message ... Hello Russ: thx so much for trying to help! this is pretty much a disaster as the Search function for finding key words that i put into the "Notes" section of Contacts is a long time feature that i've come to depend on. i've tried the "Advanced Find" that you had suggested but it also didn't work. Example: if under Russ Valentine in my Contacts list, under Notes for your name, i put down "computer genius", and also "Microsoft expert", in the future, i may recall you, the person who's the computer genius and a Microsoft expert but i might have forgotten your full name, so i'd search for either of those 2 terms and i'll instantly have a very short list of people to choose from. the search function is on the upper right hand corner of the "Contacts" section, and there's a small magnifying glass icon there as well, where one is supposed to type in the term or "string" to search for. that is not working. additionally, when i tried to use the Advanced Find that you had suggested, it also yielded zero results. what should i do? i look forward to hearing any suggestions. this is very important for me. thank you again in advance. you're a great resource to have. much appreciated! "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: There are many posts here on troubleshooting Outlook 2007's deeply troubled Search function. Read the ones that apply to your situation. There is not enough information here for us to help you. It is a known issue that Instant Search fails to find things in the Notes field. You might want to return to using Advanced Find until Microsoft can get its new Search function to work. I doubt they will get it working anytime soon. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Dualmonitors" wrote in message ... Gentlemen/Ladies: i've been a long time user of Microsoft Outlook (maybe over 10 years) and have long found the Notes section of the Contacts to be useful. i would put in keywords that would help me find/remember the contact by, i.e. John Smith, in the Notes section, i might write Joe Smith's brother, or Computer expert. Typically, i would simply type in Joe Smith and every contact where anywhere containing Joe Smith would show up, and of course, John Smith would show up as well since i wrote in his Notes section, Joe Smith's brother. in the past couple of weeks, for some reason, i haven't used my search function much. but for the past 3 days, i cannot get the Search function to find anything at all in Contacts!! this is a KEY functionality for me. i have over 1500 contacts and it is very useful for me to be able to zero in on certain people. i've tried researching this for hours to no avail. i might have inadvertently hit a key to the left or right of the keyboard and that might have changed some important setting? i would greatly appreciate any help. thank you so much in advance! 
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May 14th, 2007, 10:31 PM
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Contacts Search NOT WORKING in Outlook 2007 suddenly!
just tried that, Russ. did exactly what you suggested. disappointingly,
the results are the same as using the search box on the upper right of the Outlook Contact screen - that is, virtually no results show up. i did find one exception and it showed up only 2 contacts, even when there ought to be around 25 if not 50 for that searched term. so something's terribly wrong. is there a way to put the Offce 2007 CD in and try to reinstall in hopes of it "fixing" something? i really don't want any of my emails, contact info, etc changed! i use it every single day and it is THE one application that i use from morning to night. ugh. i'm so lost on this one. this is critical for me. thx for keeping on trying to help me, Russ. really looking forward to hearing back from you. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Use the Advanced Tab. If you look at the top of that dialog, it gives you a choice of what type of Outlook Items to search. Select Contacts in that dropdown. When you do, the Field dropdown will present a flyout for "All Contact Fields." There you will find "Notes." -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Dualmonitors" wrote in message ... Russ: it's actually not that simple! May i illustrate please: In Contacts "mode", you have all the contacts on the right pane. you go to Tools at the top, the dropdown menu's 2nd option is Instant Search. the pull out menu to the right when you hover over the Instant Search shows multiple options where the last one is Advanced Find. when you select Advanced Find, you get a new pop up window. in that window, there are 3 tabs. the first tab is Contacts, the 2nd tab is More Choices, the 3rd tab is Advanced. the 1st tab (Contacts) does not seem to work for me at all as there is no such option for searching the "Notes" section. the 3rd tab, Advanced, asks you to start with defining a "Field" with a Field dropdown menu. However, when you drop down that menu, there is NO "notes" field. The option called "All Note Fields" has a pull out menu that allows you to select Contact, maybe that's the right one? or, alternatively, one other Field in the field dropdown is "Frequently Used Fields" where you can choose either Contacts or simply Notes. both sound correct to me. please realize that "Note" is probably incorrect but "Notes" is probably correct since the section in Contacts at the bottom where i put all my notes is actually called "Notes" plural. I suspect that "Note" is that other Outlook functionality called Note for taking notes. in any case, i've tried using that Advanced find and tried various Fields options but they do not work. i really really need this function badly for what i do daily and am really stumped. any help would be most appreciated. thank you! "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Just use the Advanced Tab, Look for Contacts, use the Field dropdown to select "Notes," then "contains" and enter what you're searching for.. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Dualmonitors" wrote in message ... just to see if Russ and/or others have missed my previous posting. thx. sorry for the repeat. "Dualmonitors" wrote: Oops...Russ, did you see my post immediately preceding your last post? i think we might have posted almost at the same time so you might not have had the opportunity to read my last post. thx. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Perhaps, but that assumes facts not yet in evidence. My point was that even though Instant Search fails to find data in the Notes field, using the Advanced Find dialog will still pull it up. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote in message ... advanced find uses the search index - so it sounds like the index is corrupt and needs rebuilt. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/ Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/ Outlook Tips by email: Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter: ** Please include your Outlook version, Account type, and Windows Version when requesting assistance ** "Dualmonitors" wrote in message ... Hello Russ: thx so much for trying to help! this is pretty much a disaster as the Search function for finding key words that i put into the "Notes" section of Contacts is a long time feature that i've come to depend on. i've tried the "Advanced Find" that you had suggested but it also didn't work. Example: if under Russ Valentine in my Contacts list, under Notes for your name, i put down "computer genius", and also "Microsoft expert", in the future, i may recall you, the person who's the computer genius and a Microsoft expert but i might have forgotten your full name, so i'd search for either of those 2 terms and i'll instantly have a very short list of people to choose from. the search function is on the upper right hand corner of the "Contacts" section, and there's a small magnifying glass icon there as well, where one is supposed to type in the term or "string" to search for. that is not working. additionally, when i tried to use the Advanced Find that you had suggested, it also yielded zero results. what should i do? i look forward to hearing any suggestions. this is very important for me. thank you again in advance. you're a great resource to have. much appreciated! "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: There are many posts here on troubleshooting Outlook 2007's deeply troubled Search function. Read the ones that apply to your situation. There is not enough information here for us to help you. It is a known issue that Instant Search fails to find things in the Notes field. You might want to return to using Advanced Find until Microsoft can get its new Search function to work. I doubt they will get it working anytime soon. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Dualmonitors" wrote in message ... Gentlemen/Ladies: i've been a long time user of Microsoft Outlook (maybe over 10 years) and have long found the Notes section of the Contacts to be useful. i would put in keywords that would help me find/remember the contact by, i.e. John Smith, in the Notes section, i might write Joe Smith's brother, or Computer expert. Typically, i would simply type in Joe Smith and every contact where anywhere containing Joe Smith would show up, and of course, John Smith would show up as well since i wrote in his Notes section, Joe Smith's brother. in the past couple of weeks, for some reason, i haven't used my search function much. but for the past 3 days, i cannot get the Search function to find anything at all in Contacts!! this is a KEY functionality for me. i have over 1500 contacts and it is very useful for me to be able to zero in on certain people. i've tried researching this for hours to no avail. i might have inadvertently hit a key to the left or right of the keyboard and that might have changed some important setting? i would greatly appreciate any help. thank you so much in advance!
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May 14th, 2007, 10:34 PM
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Contacts Search NOT WORKING in Outlook 2007 suddenly!
PS: i already did one of those "look for outlook errors and repair" it
found no error at all! so no action was taken. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Use the Advanced Tab. If you look at the top of that dialog, it gives you a choice of what type of Outlook Items to search. Select Contacts in that dropdown. When you do, the Field dropdown will present a flyout for "All Contact Fields." There you will find "Notes." -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Dualmonitors" wrote in message ... Russ: it's actually not that simple! May i illustrate please: In Contacts "mode", you have all the contacts on the right pane. you go to Tools at the top, the dropdown menu's 2nd option is Instant Search. the pull out menu to the right when you hover over the Instant Search shows multiple options where the last one is Advanced Find. when you select Advanced Find, you get a new pop up window. in that window, there are 3 tabs. the first tab is Contacts, the 2nd tab is More Choices, the 3rd tab is Advanced. the 1st tab (Contacts) does not seem to work for me at all as there is no such option for searching the "Notes" section. the 3rd tab, Advanced, asks you to start with defining a "Field" with a Field dropdown menu. However, when you drop down that menu, there is NO "notes" field. The option called "All Note Fields" has a pull out menu that allows you to select Contact, maybe that's the right one? or, alternatively, one other Field in the field dropdown is "Frequently Used Fields" where you can choose either Contacts or simply Notes. both sound correct to me. please realize that "Note" is probably incorrect but "Notes" is probably correct since the section in Contacts at the bottom where i put all my notes is actually called "Notes" plural. I suspect that "Note" is that other Outlook functionality called Note for taking notes. in any case, i've tried using that Advanced find and tried various Fields options but they do not work. i really really need this function badly for what i do daily and am really stumped. any help would be most appreciated. thank you! "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Just use the Advanced Tab, Look for Contacts, use the Field dropdown to select "Notes," then "contains" and enter what you're searching for.. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Dualmonitors" wrote in message ... just to see if Russ and/or others have missed my previous posting. thx. sorry for the repeat. "Dualmonitors" wrote: Oops...Russ, did you see my post immediately preceding your last post? i think we might have posted almost at the same time so you might not have had the opportunity to read my last post. thx. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Perhaps, but that assumes facts not yet in evidence. My point was that even though Instant Search fails to find data in the Notes field, using the Advanced Find dialog will still pull it up. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote in message ... advanced find uses the search index - so it sounds like the index is corrupt and needs rebuilt. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/ Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/ Outlook Tips by email: Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter: ** Please include your Outlook version, Account type, and Windows Version when requesting assistance ** "Dualmonitors" wrote in message ... Hello Russ: thx so much for trying to help! this is pretty much a disaster as the Search function for finding key words that i put into the "Notes" section of Contacts is a long time feature that i've come to depend on. i've tried the "Advanced Find" that you had suggested but it also didn't work. Example: if under Russ Valentine in my Contacts list, under Notes for your name, i put down "computer genius", and also "Microsoft expert", in the future, i may recall you, the person who's the computer genius and a Microsoft expert but i might have forgotten your full name, so i'd search for either of those 2 terms and i'll instantly have a very short list of people to choose from. the search function is on the upper right hand corner of the "Contacts" section, and there's a small magnifying glass icon there as well, where one is supposed to type in the term or "string" to search for. that is not working. additionally, when i tried to use the Advanced Find that you had suggested, it also yielded zero results. what should i do? i look forward to hearing any suggestions. this is very important for me. thank you again in advance. you're a great resource to have. much appreciated! "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: There are many posts here on troubleshooting Outlook 2007's deeply troubled Search function. Read the ones that apply to your situation. There is not enough information here for us to help you. It is a known issue that Instant Search fails to find things in the Notes field. You might want to return to using Advanced Find until Microsoft can get its new Search function to work. I doubt they will get it working anytime soon. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Dualmonitors" wrote in message ... Gentlemen/Ladies: i've been a long time user of Microsoft Outlook (maybe over 10 years) and have long found the Notes section of the Contacts to be useful. i would put in keywords that would help me find/remember the contact by, i.e. John Smith, in the Notes section, i might write Joe Smith's brother, or Computer expert. Typically, i would simply type in Joe Smith and every contact where anywhere containing Joe Smith would show up, and of course, John Smith would show up as well since i wrote in his Notes section, Joe Smith's brother. in the past couple of weeks, for some reason, i haven't used my search function much. but for the past 3 days, i cannot get the Search function to find anything at all in Contacts!! this is a KEY functionality for me. i have over 1500 contacts and it is very useful for me to be able to zero in on certain people. i've tried researching this for hours to no avail. i might have inadvertently hit a key to the left or right of the keyboard and that might have changed some important setting? i would greatly appreciate any help. thank you so much in advance!
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May 14th, 2007, 11:55 PM
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Contacts Search NOT WORKING in Outlook 2007 suddenly!
PPS: sorry, one more idea: for Outlook 2003, i recall trying to "repair"
using the function in Outlook on the PC, as well as "repair using the CD disk inserted in the pc first". the 2nd method yielded better results by far. those issues with my old Outlook 2003, of course, is not relevant to my current Outlook 2007 search issues, but i was just thinking that maybe if that "repair after inserting CD into PC" method is still an option, would that help my situation? the real problem is i have no idea whatsoever about what's causing this! "Dualmonitors" wrote: PS: i already did one of those "look for outlook errors and repair" it found no error at all! so no action was taken. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Use the Advanced Tab. If you look at the top of that dialog, it gives you a choice of what type of Outlook Items to search. Select Contacts in that dropdown. When you do, the Field dropdown will present a flyout for "All Contact Fields." There you will find "Notes." -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Dualmonitors" wrote in message ... Russ: it's actually not that simple! May i illustrate please: In Contacts "mode", you have all the contacts on the right pane. you go to Tools at the top, the dropdown menu's 2nd option is Instant Search. the pull out menu to the right when you hover over the Instant Search shows multiple options where the last one is Advanced Find. when you select Advanced Find, you get a new pop up window. in that window, there are 3 tabs. the first tab is Contacts, the 2nd tab is More Choices, the 3rd tab is Advanced. the 1st tab (Contacts) does not seem to work for me at all as there is no such option for searching the "Notes" section. the 3rd tab, Advanced, asks you to start with defining a "Field" with a Field dropdown menu. However, when you drop down that menu, there is NO "notes" field. The option called "All Note Fields" has a pull out menu that allows you to select Contact, maybe that's the right one? or, alternatively, one other Field in the field dropdown is "Frequently Used Fields" where you can choose either Contacts or simply Notes. both sound correct to me. please realize that "Note" is probably incorrect but "Notes" is probably correct since the section in Contacts at the bottom where i put all my notes is actually called "Notes" plural. I suspect that "Note" is that other Outlook functionality called Note for taking notes. in any case, i've tried using that Advanced find and tried various Fields options but they do not work. i really really need this function badly for what i do daily and am really stumped. any help would be most appreciated. thank you! "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Just use the Advanced Tab, Look for Contacts, use the Field dropdown to select "Notes," then "contains" and enter what you're searching for.. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Dualmonitors" wrote in message ... just to see if Russ and/or others have missed my previous posting. thx. sorry for the repeat. "Dualmonitors" wrote: Oops...Russ, did you see my post immediately preceding your last post? i think we might have posted almost at the same time so you might not have had the opportunity to read my last post. thx. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Perhaps, but that assumes facts not yet in evidence. My point was that even though Instant Search fails to find data in the Notes field, using the Advanced Find dialog will still pull it up. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote in message ... advanced find uses the search index - so it sounds like the index is corrupt and needs rebuilt. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/ Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/ Outlook Tips by email: Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter: ** Please include your Outlook version, Account type, and Windows Version when requesting assistance ** "Dualmonitors" wrote in message ... Hello Russ: thx so much for trying to help! this is pretty much a disaster as the Search function for finding key words that i put into the "Notes" section of Contacts is a long time feature that i've come to depend on. i've tried the "Advanced Find" that you had suggested but it also didn't work. Example: if under Russ Valentine in my Contacts list, under Notes for your name, i put down "computer genius", and also "Microsoft expert", in the future, i may recall you, the person who's the computer genius and a Microsoft expert but i might have forgotten your full name, so i'd search for either of those 2 terms and i'll instantly have a very short list of people to choose from. the search function is on the upper right hand corner of the "Contacts" section, and there's a small magnifying glass icon there as well, where one is supposed to type in the term or "string" to search for. that is not working. additionally, when i tried to use the Advanced Find that you had suggested, it also yielded zero results. what should i do? i look forward to hearing any suggestions. this is very important for me. thank you again in advance. you're a great resource to have. much appreciated! "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: There are many posts here on troubleshooting Outlook 2007's deeply troubled Search function. Read the ones that apply to your situation. There is not enough information here for us to help you. It is a known issue that Instant Search fails to find things in the Notes field. You might want to return to using Advanced Find until Microsoft can get its new Search function to work. I doubt they will get it working anytime soon. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Dualmonitors" wrote in message ... Gentlemen/Ladies: i've been a long time user of Microsoft Outlook (maybe over 10 years) and have long found the Notes section of the Contacts to be useful. i would put in keywords that would help me find/remember the contact by, i.e. John Smith, in the Notes section, i might write Joe Smith's brother, or Computer expert. Typically, i would simply type in Joe Smith and every contact where anywhere containing Joe Smith would show up, and of course, John Smith would show up as well since i wrote in his Notes section, Joe Smith's brother. in the past couple of weeks, for some reason, i haven't used my search function much. but for the past 3 days, i cannot get the Search function to find anything at all in Contacts!! this is a KEY functionality for me. i have over 1500 contacts and it is very useful for me to be able to zero in on certain people. i've tried researching this for hours to no avail. i might have inadvertently hit a key to the left or right of the keyboard and that might have changed some important setting? i would greatly appreciate any help. thank you so much in advance!
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May 15th, 2007, 02:55 AM
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Contacts Search NOT WORKING in Outlook 2007 suddenly!
Did you rebuild your index?
-- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Dualmonitors" wrote in message ... just tried that, Russ. did exactly what you suggested. disappointingly, the results are the same as using the search box on the upper right of the Outlook Contact screen - that is, virtually no results show up. i did find one exception and it showed up only 2 contacts, even when there ought to be around 25 if not 50 for that searched term. so something's terribly wrong. is there a way to put the Offce 2007 CD in and try to reinstall in hopes of it "fixing" something? i really don't want any of my emails, contact info, etc changed! i use it every single day and it is THE one application that i use from morning to night. ugh. i'm so lost on this one. this is critical for me. thx for keeping on trying to help me, Russ. really looking forward to hearing back from you. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Use the Advanced Tab. If you look at the top of that dialog, it gives you a choice of what type of Outlook Items to search. Select Contacts in that dropdown. When you do, the Field dropdown will present a flyout for "All Contact Fields." There you will find "Notes." -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Dualmonitors" wrote in message ... Russ: it's actually not that simple! May i illustrate please: In Contacts "mode", you have all the contacts on the right pane. you go to Tools at the top, the dropdown menu's 2nd option is Instant Search. the pull out menu to the right when you hover over the Instant Search shows multiple options where the last one is Advanced Find. when you select Advanced Find, you get a new pop up window. in that window, there are 3 tabs. the first tab is Contacts, the 2nd tab is More Choices, the 3rd tab is Advanced. the 1st tab (Contacts) does not seem to work for me at all as there is no such option for searching the "Notes" section. the 3rd tab, Advanced, asks you to start with defining a "Field" with a Field dropdown menu. However, when you drop down that menu, there is NO "notes" field. The option called "All Note Fields" has a pull out menu that allows you to select Contact, maybe that's the right one? or, alternatively, one other Field in the field dropdown is "Frequently Used Fields" where you can choose either Contacts or simply Notes. both sound correct to me. please realize that "Note" is probably incorrect but "Notes" is probably correct since the section in Contacts at the bottom where i put all my notes is actually called "Notes" plural. I suspect that "Note" is that other Outlook functionality called Note for taking notes. in any case, i've tried using that Advanced find and tried various Fields options but they do not work. i really really need this function badly for what i do daily and am really stumped. any help would be most appreciated. thank you! "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Just use the Advanced Tab, Look for Contacts, use the Field dropdown to select "Notes," then "contains" and enter what you're searching for.. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Dualmonitors" wrote in message ... just to see if Russ and/or others have missed my previous posting. thx. sorry for the repeat. "Dualmonitors" wrote: Oops...Russ, did you see my post immediately preceding your last post? i think we might have posted almost at the same time so you might not have had the opportunity to read my last post. thx. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Perhaps, but that assumes facts not yet in evidence. My point was that even though Instant Search fails to find data in the Notes field, using the Advanced Find dialog will still pull it up. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote in message ... advanced find uses the search index - so it sounds like the index is corrupt and needs rebuilt. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/ Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/ Outlook Tips by email: Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter: ** Please include your Outlook version, Account type, and Windows Version when requesting assistance ** "Dualmonitors" wrote in message ... Hello Russ: thx so much for trying to help! this is pretty much a disaster as the Search function for finding key words that i put into the "Notes" section of Contacts is a long time feature that i've come to depend on. i've tried the "Advanced Find" that you had suggested but it also didn't work. Example: if under Russ Valentine in my Contacts list, under Notes for your name, i put down "computer genius", and also "Microsoft expert", in the future, i may recall you, the person who's the computer genius and a Microsoft expert but i might have forgotten your full name, so i'd search for either of those 2 terms and i'll instantly have a very short list of people to choose from. the search function is on the upper right hand corner of the "Contacts" section, and there's a small magnifying glass icon there as well, where one is supposed to type in the term or "string" to search for. that is not working. additionally, when i tried to use the Advanced Find that you had suggested, it also yielded zero results. what should i do? i look forward to hearing any suggestions. this is very important for me. thank you again in advance. you're a great resource to have. much appreciated! "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: There are many posts here on troubleshooting Outlook 2007's deeply troubled Search function. Read the ones that apply to your situation. There is not enough information here for us to help you. It is a known issue that Instant Search fails to find things in the Notes field. You might want to return to using Advanced Find until Microsoft can get its new Search function to work. I doubt they will get it working anytime soon. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Dualmonitors" wrote in message ... Gentlemen/Ladies: i've been a long time user of Microsoft Outlook (maybe over 10 years) and have long found the Notes section of the Contacts to be useful. i would put in keywords that would help me find/remember the contact by, i.e. John Smith, in the Notes section, i might write Joe Smith's brother, or Computer expert. Typically, i would simply type in Joe Smith and every contact where anywhere containing Joe Smith would show up, and of course, John Smith would show up as well since i wrote in his Notes section, Joe Smith's brother. in the past couple of weeks, for some reason, i haven't used my search function much. but for the past 3 days, i cannot get the Search function to find anything at all in Contacts!! this is a KEY functionality for me. i have over 1500 contacts and it is very useful for me to be able to zero in on certain people. i've tried researching this for hours to no avail. i might have inadvertently hit a key to the left or right of the keyboard and that might have changed some important setting? i would greatly appreciate any help. thank you so much in advance!
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May 15th, 2007, 02:32 PM
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Hello Russ and Diane,
thank you both for trying to help me. after trying Advanced Find, and noticing that even that didn't work, i thought that it was time to at least find out what re-indexing meant. doing more search and this and that finally yielded the answer that re-indexing is very little work! literally, one click and wait for maybe an hour. i did it over dinner time and it was done by the time i finished watching "24" last night on TV  Glad to report, SO glad to report, that it worked! this is very mysterious to me. what did i possibly do to cause this? also, rather frequently since i installed Outlook 2007 on a brand new Vista machine, it was telling me that "outlook files did not close properly and outlook is checking the files for errors...performance may be slowed during this process". this message shows up when i re-open Outlook, say in the morning when i turn the computer on. again, there was NOTHING at all strange in the way i turned off the pc the night before, nor did i do anything weird when i shut down Outlook prior to powering down my pc. what might have caused that? my fear is that these little problems may build up over time to a massive problem! any advice would be most appreciated. thank you for guiding me through and being patient with me vis-a-vis the Search issue, which i believe is resolved. i will do the search more often today to test it out. "Dualmonitors" wrote: PPS: sorry, one more idea: for Outlook 2003, i recall trying to "repair" using the function in Outlook on the PC, as well as "repair using the CD disk inserted in the pc first". the 2nd method yielded better results by far. those issues with my old Outlook 2003, of course, is not relevant to my current Outlook 2007 search issues, but i was just thinking that maybe if that "repair after inserting CD into PC" method is still an option, would that help my situation? the real problem is i have no idea whatsoever about what's causing this! "Dualmonitors" wrote: PS: i already did one of those "look for outlook errors and repair" it found no error at all! so no action was taken. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Use the Advanced Tab. If you look at the top of that dialog, it gives you a choice of what type of Outlook Items to search. Select Contacts in that dropdown. When you do, the Field dropdown will present a flyout for "All Contact Fields." There you will find "Notes." -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Dualmonitors" wrote in message ... Russ: it's actually not that simple! May i illustrate please: In Contacts "mode", you have all the contacts on the right pane. you go to Tools at the top, the dropdown menu's 2nd option is Instant Search. the pull out menu to the right when you hover over the Instant Search shows multiple options where the last one is Advanced Find. when you select Advanced Find, you get a new pop up window. in that window, there are 3 tabs. the first tab is Contacts, the 2nd tab is More Choices, the 3rd tab is Advanced. the 1st tab (Contacts) does not seem to work for me at all as there is no such option for searching the "Notes" section. the 3rd tab, Advanced, asks you to start with defining a "Field" with a Field dropdown menu. However, when you drop down that menu, there is NO "notes" field. The option called "All Note Fields" has a pull out menu that allows you to select Contact, maybe that's the right one? or, alternatively, one other Field in the field dropdown is "Frequently Used Fields" where you can choose either Contacts or simply Notes. both sound correct to me. please realize that "Note" is probably incorrect but "Notes" is probably correct since the section in Contacts at the bottom where i put all my notes is actually called "Notes" plural. I suspect that "Note" is that other Outlook functionality called Note for taking notes. in any case, i've tried using that Advanced find and tried various Fields options but they do not work. i really really need this function badly for what i do daily and am really stumped. any help would be most appreciated. thank you! "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Just use the Advanced Tab, Look for Contacts, use the Field dropdown to select "Notes," then "contains" and enter what you're searching for.. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Dualmonitors" wrote in message ... just to see if Russ and/or others have missed my previous posting. thx. sorry for the repeat. "Dualmonitors" wrote: Oops...Russ, did you see my post immediately preceding your last post? i think we might have posted almost at the same time so you might not have had the opportunity to read my last post. thx. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Perhaps, but that assumes facts not yet in evidence. My point was that even though Instant Search fails to find data in the Notes field, using the Advanced Find dialog will still pull it up. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote in message ... advanced find uses the search index - so it sounds like the index is corrupt and needs rebuilt. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/ Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/ Outlook Tips by email: Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter: ** Please include your Outlook version, Account type, and Windows Version when requesting assistance ** "Dualmonitors" wrote in message ... Hello Russ: thx so much for trying to help! this is pretty much a disaster as the Search function for finding key words that i put into the "Notes" section of Contacts is a long time feature that i've come to depend on. i've tried the "Advanced Find" that you had suggested but it also didn't work. Example: if under Russ Valentine in my Contacts list, under Notes for your name, i put down "computer genius", and also "Microsoft expert", in the future, i may recall you, the person who's the computer genius and a Microsoft expert but i might have forgotten your full name, so i'd search for either of those 2 terms and i'll instantly have a very short list of people to choose from. the search function is on the upper right hand corner of the "Contacts" section, and there's a small magnifying glass icon there as well, where one is supposed to type in the term or "string" to search for. that is not working. additionally, when i tried to use the Advanced Find that you had suggested, it also yielded zero results. what should i do? i look forward to hearing any suggestions. this is very important for me. thank you again in advance. you're a great resource to have. much appreciated! "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: There are many posts here on troubleshooting Outlook 2007's deeply troubled Search function. Read the ones that apply to your situation. There is not enough information here for us to help you. It is a known issue that Instant Search fails to find things in the Notes field. You might want to return to using Advanced Find until Microsoft can get its new Search function to work. I doubt they will get it working anytime soon. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Dualmonitors" wrote in message ... Gentlemen/Ladies: i've been a long time user of Microsoft Outlook (maybe over 10 years) and have long found the Notes section of the Contacts to be useful. i would put in keywords that would help me find/remember the contact by, i.e. John Smith, in the Notes section, i might write Joe Smith's brother, or Computer expert. Typically, i would simply type in Joe Smith and every contact where anywhere containing Joe Smith would show up, and of course, John Smith would show up as well since i wrote in his Notes section, Joe Smith's brother. in the past couple of weeks, for some reason, i haven't used my search function much. but for the past 3 days, i cannot get the Search function to find anything at all in Contacts!! this is a KEY functionality for me. i have over 1500 contacts and it is very useful for me to be able to zero in on certain people. i've tried researching this for hours to no avail. i might have inadvertently hit a key to the left or right of the keyboard and that might have changed some important setting? i would greatly appreciate any help. thank you so much in advance!
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May 15th, 2007, 09:50 PM
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Contacts Search NOT WORKING in Outlook 2007 suddenly!
Many people are reporting these problems. No one seems to know what causes
them. They all appear harmless. Clearly Instant Search is too new to be trouble-free. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Dualmonitors" wrote in message ... Hello Russ and Diane, thank you both for trying to help me. after trying Advanced Find, and noticing that even that didn't work, i thought that it was time to at least find out what re-indexing meant. doing more search and this and that finally yielded the answer that re-indexing is very little work! literally, one click and wait for maybe an hour. i did it over dinner time and it was done by the time i finished watching "24" last night on TV Glad to report, SO glad to report, that it worked! this is very mysterious to me. what did i possibly do to cause this? also, rather frequently since i installed Outlook 2007 on a brand new Vista machine, it was telling me that "outlook files did not close properly and outlook is checking the files for errors...performance may be slowed during this process". this message shows up when i re-open Outlook, say in the morning when i turn the computer on. again, there was NOTHING at all strange in the way i turned off the pc the night before, nor did i do anything weird when i shut down Outlook prior to powering down my pc. what might have caused that? my fear is that these little problems may build up over time to a massive problem! any advice would be most appreciated. thank you for guiding me through and being patient with me vis-a-vis the Search issue, which i believe is resolved. i will do the search more often today to test it out. "Dualmonitors" wrote: PPS: sorry, one more idea: for Outlook 2003, i recall trying to "repair" using the function in Outlook on the PC, as well as "repair using the CD disk inserted in the pc first". the 2nd method yielded better results by far. those issues with my old Outlook 2003, of course, is not relevant to my current Outlook 2007 search issues, but i was just thinking that maybe if that "repair after inserting CD into PC" method is still an option, would that help my situation? the real problem is i have no idea whatsoever about what's causing this! "Dualmonitors" wrote: PS: i already did one of those "look for outlook errors and repair" it found no error at all! so no action was taken. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Use the Advanced Tab. If you look at the top of that dialog, it gives you a choice of what type of Outlook Items to search. Select Contacts in that dropdown. When you do, the Field dropdown will present a flyout for "All Contact Fields." There you will find "Notes." -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Dualmonitors" wrote in message ... Russ: it's actually not that simple! May i illustrate please: In Contacts "mode", you have all the contacts on the right pane. you go to Tools at the top, the dropdown menu's 2nd option is Instant Search. the pull out menu to the right when you hover over the Instant Search shows multiple options where the last one is Advanced Find. when you select Advanced Find, you get a new pop up window. in that window, there are 3 tabs. the first tab is Contacts, the 2nd tab is More Choices, the 3rd tab is Advanced. the 1st tab (Contacts) does not seem to work for me at all as there is no such option for searching the "Notes" section. the 3rd tab, Advanced, asks you to start with defining a "Field" with a Field dropdown menu. However, when you drop down that menu, there is NO "notes" field. The option called "All Note Fields" has a pull out menu that allows you to select Contact, maybe that's the right one? or, alternatively, one other Field in the field dropdown is "Frequently Used Fields" where you can choose either Contacts or simply Notes. both sound correct to me. please realize that "Note" is probably incorrect but "Notes" is probably correct since the section in Contacts at the bottom where i put all my notes is actually called "Notes" plural. I suspect that "Note" is that other Outlook functionality called Note for taking notes. in any case, i've tried using that Advanced find and tried various Fields options but they do not work. i really really need this function badly for what i do daily and am really stumped. any help would be most appreciated. thank you! "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Just use the Advanced Tab, Look for Contacts, use the Field dropdown to select "Notes," then "contains" and enter what you're searching for.. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Dualmonitors" wrote in message ... just to see if Russ and/or others have missed my previous posting. thx. sorry for the repeat. "Dualmonitors" wrote: Oops...Russ, did you see my post immediately preceding your last post? i think we might have posted almost at the same time so you might not have had the opportunity to read my last post. thx. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Perhaps, but that assumes facts not yet in evidence. My point was that even though Instant Search fails to find data in the Notes field, using the Advanced Find dialog will still pull it up. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote in message ... advanced find uses the search index - so it sounds like the index is corrupt and needs rebuilt. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/ Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/ Outlook Tips by email: Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter: ** Please include your Outlook version, Account type, and Windows Version when requesting assistance ** "Dualmonitors" wrote in message ... Hello Russ: thx so much for trying to help! this is pretty much a disaster as the Search function for finding key words that i put into the "Notes" section of Contacts is a long time feature that i've come to depend on. i've tried the "Advanced Find" that you had suggested but it also didn't work. Example: if under Russ Valentine in my Contacts list, under Notes for your name, i put down "computer genius", and also "Microsoft expert", in the future, i may recall you, the person who's the computer genius and a Microsoft expert but i might have forgotten your full name, so i'd search for either of those 2 terms and i'll instantly have a very short list of people to choose from. the search function is on the upper right hand corner of the "Contacts" section, and there's a small magnifying glass icon there as well, where one is supposed to type in the term or "string" to search for. that is not working. additionally, when i tried to use the Advanced Find that you had suggested, it also yielded zero results. what should i do? i look forward to hearing any suggestions. this is very important for me. thank you again in advance. you're a great resource to have. much appreciated! "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: There are many posts here on troubleshooting Outlook 2007's deeply troubled Search function. Read the ones that apply to your situation. There is not enough information here for us to help you. It is a known issue that Instant Search fails to find things in the Notes field. You might want to return to using Advanced Find until Microsoft can get its new Search function to work. I doubt they will get it working anytime soon. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Dualmonitors" wrote in message ... Gentlemen/Ladies: i've been a long time user of Microsoft Outlook (maybe over 10 years) and have long found the Notes section of the Contacts to be useful. i would put in keywords that would help me find/remember the contact by, i.e. John Smith, in the Notes section, i might write Joe Smith's brother, or Computer expert. Typically, i would simply type in Joe Smith and every contact where anywhere containing Joe Smith would show up, and of course, John Smith would show up as well since i wrote in his Notes section, Joe Smith's brother. in the past couple of weeks, for some reason, i haven't used my search function much. but for the past 3 days, i cannot get the Search function to find anything at all in Contacts!! this is a KEY functionality for me. i have over 1500 contacts and it is very useful for me to be able to zero in on certain people. i've tried researching this for hours to no avail. i might have inadvertently hit a key to the left or right of the keyboard and that might have changed some important setting? i would greatly appreciate any help. thank you so much in advance!
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June 14th, 2007, 04:58 PM
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funny thing is starting up Outlook in the safe mode works =(
i mean searching for stuff in the notes field using instant search works in Outlook safe mode. disabled stuff but still the same problem Mos!
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June 14th, 2007, 08:02 PM
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Contacts Search NOT WORKING in Outlook 2007 suddenly!
This is an old post. Could you quote enough of the original so that we can
follow what you're talking about? There may be some interesting clues here. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote in message oups.com... funny thing is starting up Outlook in the safe mode works =( i mean searching for stuff in the notes field using instant search works in Outlook safe mode. disabled stuff but still the same problem Mos!
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