I wish I could answer your question definitively, but I can't. If anyone
else can, I hope they will. All I can tell you is that Instant Search has
worked flawlessly for me on Vista and always has. Over many years I have
learned that what Microsoft claims will work and what actually works are
widely divergent. Accordingly, my own personal bias is that I would never
install a version of Office on an operating system for which it was not
developed. Microsoft claims that Office 2007 is perfectly compatible with
Windows XP. I can't help but notice that Office 2007 requires a fairly major
update to Windows XP to install Instant Search. I also notice that most of
the users having problems with Instant Search are those running Windows XP.
Microsoft seems to be scrambling to release updates for Instant Search for
Windows XP. For starters, I would make sure you have the latest of their
updates and have re-indexed your PST file.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Steve JORDI" wrote in message
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Works fine here. No need to use the Query builder. Have you tried any of
the
now well documented troubleshooting steps? Start here, realizing that
Instant Search on Win XP is problematic at best:
http://www.msoutlook.info/question/47
Hi,
thanks for your input. Yes I did follow almost all procedures
described on MS forums and KB.
The one you point to, doesn't help.
Can you actually type in "rba" and get all "Barbara" with instant
search? I can't.
I get only selections of what is BEGINNING with what I type.
And there is no way to get a contact when typing in only parts
of an email address.
It works though with the "Advanced Find".
So that leads me to wonder "what the heck with Instant Search?"
Looks like it's less powerful and of no use.
Sincerely,
Steve JORDI
(Remove the K_I_L_LSPAM from my email address)
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