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searching for number in contacts doesnt work in outlook 2007

Author
12 Nov 2007 6:18 AM
Gizzo
i used to be able to search for a contact by using a part of his
telephone or mobile phone number thru advanced search on outlook 2003.

i've upgraded to outlook2007 and vista and i can no longer do it. it
returns a "No Matches Found" error.

I've checked the index and I am indexing the correct pst file and it
shows that indexing has been complete (0 records left to index)

pls help

Author
12 Nov 2007 11:57 AM
Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]
I just tried that and it worked fine if I chose "Frequently Used Text
Fields" or "Phone number fields" for the area to search

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"Gizzo" <gbacar***@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1194848311.040529.215640@y27g2000pre.googlegroups.com...
>i used to be able to search for a contact by using a part of his
> telephone or mobile phone number thru advanced search on outlook 2003.
>
> i've upgraded to outlook2007 and vista and i can no longer do it. it
> returns a "No Matches Found" error.
>
> I've checked the index and I am indexing the correct pst file and it
> shows that indexing has been complete (0 records left to index)
Author
13 Nov 2007 6:04 AM
Gizzo
That's what boggles me. It used to work fine and it should work fine
but it's not and i dont know what's wrong.

even searching the notes folder which are simple text files is not
working. to test i even search for a text to a note that is on top of
the list and i can see staring right at me. when i search it says no
results. mind boggling!

what am i doing wrong?
Author
13 Nov 2007 11:08 AM
Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]
Very odd... this is a real long shot but you might want to run ScanPST.EXE
on your PST file

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"Gizzo" <gbacar***@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1194933876.848863.219930@v29g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
> That's what boggles me. It used to work fine and it should work fine
> but it's not and i dont know what's wrong.
>
> even searching the notes folder which are simple text files is not
> working. to test i even search for a text to a note that is on top of
> the list and i can see staring right at me. when i search it says no
> results. mind boggling!
>
> what am i doing wrong?
Author
13 Nov 2007 11:43 AM
Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]
Very frequent problem. Start here:
http://www.msoutlook.info/question/47

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
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"Gizzo" <gbacar***@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1194933876.848863.219930@v29g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
> That's what boggles me. It used to work fine and it should work fine
> but it's not and i dont know what's wrong.
>
> even searching the notes folder which are simple text files is not
> working. to test i even search for a text to a note that is on top of
> the list and i can see staring right at me. when i search it says no
> results. mind boggling!
>
> what am i doing wrong?
>
Author
13 Nov 2007 6:45 AM
Gizzo
I know it should work but for some reason it aint working with mine. i
also see it searching thru Notes, even when i see the note on my face,
when i use the search facility it just cannot find it.

is there anything i did wrong?

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