Hi,

I've been customizing the "journal" item by adding custom fields from
within the "design this form" in Outlook. When I enter the value for these
fields and save the item , I am unable to search for those values using the
Outlook search feature. Can anyone help and tell me what I'm doing wrong.
BTW I am also using MSN toolbar to search my desktop but it too cannot find
those fields. Do I need to enable some feature within Outlook?

The fields need to be defined in the folder, not just the form. See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/fields.htm for best practices.

I have no idea whether MSN Desktop Search can search custom fields at all.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"student of science" student of wrote in message ...
Hi,

I've been customizing the "journal" item by adding custom fields from
within the "design this form" in Outlook. When I enter the value for these
fields and save the item , I am unable to search for those values using the
Outlook search feature. Can anyone help and tell me what I'm doing wrong.
BTW I am also using MSN toolbar to search my desktop but it too cannot find
those fields. Do I need to enable some feature within Outlook?

Thanks for the assistance. Yes, the fields were defined in the folder before
creating the form. Outlook search will only work with these fields if I use
the Advance Search options and select the specific custom field and the
value. This to me is very tedious if I have to do rutine searches. MSN
desktop search is unable to index these custome fields because of this. It
will, however, index the standard Outlook fields.

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

The fields need to be defined in the folder, not just the form. See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/fields.htm for best practices.

I have no idea whether MSN Desktop Search can search custom fields at all.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"student of science" student of wrote in message ...
Hi,

I've been customizing the "journal" item by adding custom fields from
within the "design this form" in Outlook. When I enter the value for these
fields and save the item , I am unable to search for those values using the
Outlook search feature. Can anyone help and tell me what I'm doing wrong.
BTW I am also using MSN toolbar to search my desktop but it too cannot find
those fields. Do I need to enable some feature within Outlook?