
Here click on the ellipsis menu (3 dots) on the right and choose Search Tools-> Indexing Status…Ĭlick in the Search field in order to make the Search Tools tab visible in the Ribbon. To see if everything has been indexed now use:Ĭlick in the Search field in order to make the Search Tools tab visible in the Ribbon.

Once repaired, open Outlook and leave it idle for some time. You can find this file in the same folder as outlook.exe or use OutlookTools (free!) to locate it for you. In order to fix these you should scan your pst-file for errors with scanpst.exe. If Outlook is being indexed but the correct results are still not being returned, it usually means there is some corruption going on in your pst-file. Outlook selected as an Indexed Location in Indexing Options. Note that you can’t specify which mailboxes or pst-files in Outlook to index You either index Outlook or you don’t.

You can troubleshoot Instant Search in the mentioned order in this article. There are a couple of levels at which Instant Search in Outlook can break. How can I get it to completely index my messages?

I let it index overnight but nothing has changed.

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.
