Outlook searching not working – How do I fix quickly

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Feb 15, 2021
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The outlook email account is one of the excellent webmail accounts in terms of using professional and personal email services for the clients. This searching function allows Outlook users to filter relevant emails by entering a particular term. Hence, the Outlook email user doesn't have to go through all the folders for finding an individual email, as they can use its search function to filter it.But somehow people face an issue when Outlook search stop working.

Recommended solution to Outlook searching not working issue

As a user can’t get a single search result  in the Outlook email inbox  and shows an error message of retry again and Search feature canceled completely which result in Outlook searching not working and looking for a solution to resolve it so follow here.

End the program through task manager- 

  • User need to hold the alt button on the keypad and press it to open the task manager. Now go to the list of active programs to look for outlook. 
  • Click on the close button in order to quit the Outlook program and then visit the Processes tab. Drop down to the running processes list in order to find out the Outlook. Now choose OUTLOOK.EXE and then press the end process to close it

Update to Latest features

  • First, go to the settings section.
  • Choose the “Update and security section”.
  • In the next move, click on “Advanced options” and “ Install updates for the Microsoft products.
  • Check for your Outlook application update. Sometimes if you are using the out-dated application of Outlook then a lot of features won’t work. Hence check the Outlook for updates.

“Clean up” through the registry

  • If your Outlook search is not working correctly after resetting the index, you can choose the option of “Clean up” through the registry
  • At the beginning of the process, first, you need to open the registry first.
  • Now make use of the combination Windows+R to open the run window.

Correct Outlook indexing-

  • Go to Outlook program the open File tab. Choose the options tab then the screen will pop-up.
  • Next, select the Search or Browse, then click on the indexing option.
  • Now on the next screen, the whole Outlook indexed locations will be visible
  •  Choose the Microsoft Outlook box and then press on save.

These were the following ways by which user can fix the issue if the issue persists about the Outlook searching stop working, then you can easily contact the toll-free number and speak to the representative easily.

 

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