Office 365 for Developers http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/9b86396f-baf3-4f6e-9908-6b20ae68f3a3/download-file-not-working-on-outlook-addin-mac. Is the Microsoft Outlook 2016 or 2013 search not working for you? Does it just come up with the message “Something went wrong and your search couldn’t be completed.” or “We couldn’t find what you were looking for.” even though you know you have messages that meet your search criteria.
Instant Search doesn’t display any results at all, only displays results before a certain date or always shows that there are items left to index. I let it index overnight but nothing has changed. How can I get it to completely index my messages? There are a couple of levels at which Instant Search in Outlook 2007, Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016 can break.
You can troubleshoot Instant Search in the mentioned order in this article. Unfortunately, there are regularly issues with the Search Index either on the Windows side or the Outlook side. Some of these bugs are relatively minor but on other occasions, it could prevent Outlook from showing any search results for certain configurations. You can check for any currently known issues regarding Search and other Outlook features on this page:.
Marked for indexing If the issue isn’t caused by any currently known issue, check whether the pst-file or mailbox has been marked to be indexed. • Outlook 2007 Tools-> Options-> Search Options In the Indexing section you can select which data file to index.• Outlook 2010 File-> Options-> section Search-> button Indexing Options-> button Modify-> expand Microsoft Outlook In the list that is shown under Microsoft Outlook, make sure that your pst-file or mailbox is displayed and selected. If it is not listed, you’ll have to.• Outlook 2013 / 2016 / 2019 / Office 365 File-> Options-> section Search-> button Indexing Options-> button Modify Here, make sure that Outlook is selected. Unlike in Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010, you cannot specify which mailboxes or pst-files in Outlook to index; You either index Outlook or you don’t. Locations selected to be indexed in Outlook 2007. Outlook selected as an Indexed Location in Indexing Options. Check for pst-file corruptions If your pst-file has been marked but Outlook doesn’t display the correct results, it usually means there is some corruption going on in your pst-file.
Each 'NumberFornat consists of 4 parts separated by commas: Positive format Negative format, Zero format, text format, e.g.: _-* #. Under 'Number' take a look at selected Category Number Format. 
In order to fix these you should scan your pst-file for errors with. You can find this file in the same folder as outlook.exe or use (free!) to locate it for you. Once repaired, open Outlook and leave it idle for some time. To see if everything has been indexed now use: • Outlook 2007 Tools-> Instant Search-> Indexing Status• Outlook 2010 / 2013 / 2016 / 2019 / Office 365 Click in the Search field in order to make the Search Tools tab visible in the Ribbon. Here click the Search Tools button and select the Indexing Status When you have a big pst-file or mailbox, this indexing could take some time but if the number of items left to index doesn’t change after leaving your computer idle for over 30 minutes, something is wrong still. Disable and then re-enable Outlook or pst-file for indexing Go back to the Search Options and, depending on the version of Outlook that you are using, deselect Outlook or the data file that is giving you issues.
Close Outlook and wait for about 5 minutes and also verify in Task Manager (CTRL+SHIFT+ESC) that on the Processes tab the outlook.exe process actually quits. You might get a lot of disk activity; this is the Search Indexer removing the indexed items from the Index.
After this, open Outlook again and go back to the Search Options and select Outlook or the pst-file we just deselected. Leave the computer idle again and see if it will eventually reach the status of “0 items remaining.” Rebuild the index If it doesn’t, it might be that the Index itself has been damaged. In order to reset this, go to Control Panel-> Indexing Options-> Advanced-> button Rebuild (Type “Indexing” in the Search field of Control Panel to quickly locate the applet.) This will rebuild the entire Index from scratch and depending on the amount of documents to be indexed, this could take quite long and degrade your system’s performance while the Indexer is still busy. I would recommend to have it rebuild itself overnight. Advanced Indexing Options allows you to Rebuild the Search Index. Troubleshoot email search results If it still doesn’t work press the blue “Troubleshoot search and indexing” link. This will start a troubleshooting wizard in which you can select the option “E-mail doesn’t appear in search results”.