Friday at work I pissed away nearly an hour looking for an email I know I had at least three copies of in Outlook. And I still didn’t find it. :mad: This is not the first time I’ve found Outlook’s search feature less than adequate. As in intercoursingly USELESS!
Gee, thanks, Outlook. Oh, and when I want to search emails by date I totally want the only choices to be today, yesterday, this week, last week, this month and last month. Because I am not an AARP-card aged multiply degreed professional with over 20 years experience in computing. I am in fact a five year old without the education to know the names of all the months of the year or how a calendar works. :rolleyes: x 2007
I’d like to replace Outlook, but it’s my work computer and that would be a career limiting move.
Can any Dopers recommend a supplementary search tool for Outlook? Something like the search tool in Thunderbird, or something like grep, or something that just works? A stack of punched cards would be preferable, fer Torvalds’ sake!
I recommend Windows Search 4.0, although I think it has to be supported at the enterprise level. It’s running on my office system and it can search my Outlook mailbox instantly.
I used to use Google Desktop search, and it was way better (and faster) than Outlook search, but if you want professional grade, xobni.com is the gold standard.
back in the good old days I used a tool called Lookout. But since its development stopped and was bought by Microsoft, and thereby became a part of Outlook, it’s not much of an alternative nor improvement.
Now, however, I’m using the quite similar named Lookeen. It’s as easy to use as the ‘normal’ search but yet much more accurate and powerful. I’m using several Outlook profiles and pst-files. With this tool I can simply add all the pst-files I want to be indexed and thus have acces to all my mails and Outlook data.
First we used it at work, where I learned of Lookeen in the first place. Now I’m even using it at home.
It’s not free though, but soon very valuable Just give it a try…
I’ll second the recommendation for Xobni plug-in for Outlook.
The best part is that while the pro version adds a lot of additional useful features, the basic version which searches you mail is free and is very effective.
I currently have Xobni on all the machines I have running outlook (8 or so) and on half of them actually paid for the Xobni Pro as I found the additional Features well worth the price.
I’ll suggest downloading and installing the free version, as I’ve found it to be very intuitive to use and very very useful.
Just give it a try…