I personally don't agree that "improvements in outlook 2007 outweigh the loss
of OSS files". I only bought it because, having had 2 laptops in a row
stolen, I'd exceeded allowable activations. Instant search, frankly, is
useless to me, because it doesn't permit searching using a combination of
categories and keywords and doesn't allow me to exclude records I don't want.
You're right about O2003 - my mis-type - it does work with O2002 though (but
not sure if I'll be able to reinstall that on my desktop PC because of the
number of previous activations). Advanced Search still works, of course -
it's just so annoying to have to reinput the search criteria every time and I
still think it's sad that the really useful facility to save searches has
been arbitrarily removed. Do you know if I can have 2 versions of Outlook
running on the same PC? (if so, I could possibly use 2002 to open .oss files
when I need to run and print my saved searches). As I said before - not
exactly progress!!

"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:

Um. Unless you stick with older builds, it won't work with Outlook 2003
either. One of the SP's blocks it for security reasons. Frankly, the
improvements in outlook 2007 outweigh the loss of OSS files- especially
since they are only 'lost' for non-mail folders. Plus, instant search makes
up for some of it - the last 10 instant searches are saved, so they are easy
to select.

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"ianggjames" wrote in message
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Unbelievable! I guess that's what Microsoft calls "progress". Back to
Outlook 2003 and £80 wasted.

"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:

It was removed from outlook 2007 - the open menu is for mailbox folders,
not
oss files. You can make search folders for mail - unfortunately you can't
save searches for other item types.

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"ianggjames" wrote in message
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I've just upgraded to Outlook 2007 (I know, silly me!) and it won't
open,
save or even recognize Office Saved Search (.oss) files. The Advanced
Find
function (which is what uses these files) exists in O-2007 and contains
the
Open and Save options in the drop-down menu (so presumably the
functionality
is there somewhere?), but they are greyed out so they can't be used.
I've
applied the regedit fix described in the Knowledge Base (although that
is
only claimed to fix O-2000 and O-2003) but it doesn't make any
difference.
(Actually, doesn't work on O-2002 either, but at least after applying
the
fix, if you click on a .oss file it opens the search in Outlook OK; but
this
doesn't happen with O-2007.) Can't find anything about this problem
under
Help or technical support for O-2007 (searches on "advanced find",
.oss,
or
"saved search" come up with no relevant results). Anyone know how to
activate this functionality?