You may need to rebuild your search index. Control
Panel-Indexing-Advanced (doing this from an Office 2003 computer so I may
have missed a step or 2.)

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Tim Browne asked:

| why is this happening I am using instant search, and it just stopped
| working (office 2007: Outlook)