Thursday, May 26, 2011

How to Fix Outlook 2007 index Search in Vista

Category              : Outlook 2007
Operating System  : Vista



Are you facing difficulties to search or partially search in your outlook, which gives you result no matches foundPerhaps you might notice a yellow message underneath the search bar like this!



And when you click on the yellow message, you will be prompted something like 
this!


Well this is because the Indexing file on your machine/computer for outlook is corrupted. And the best way to resolve this issue is by just rebuilt the outlook indexing.


How to rebuilt Outlook indexing on Vista 


1) Click Start > Control panel > Indexing Option  (or you can just type indexing in start search and press enter)


2) Click MS office outlook and click on Modify tab at the bottom.



3) Make sure MS Office Outlook is checked in  change selection location.




4) Click OK, go to previous menu and click on Advance tab > Rebuilt  




If you go back to Indexing Option dialog box now, at the top you will see the indication of the indexing process.


Normally it would take a decent time to complete the process (depends on how big is your outlook data). Well, once its finish, just launch your outlook and the search will work now!


                                                            !!cheers!!







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