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How to search subfolders in Outlook 2007

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Mike

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Dec 27, 2006, 2:55:01 PM12/27/06
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In Office 2003 you could select or unselect the "Search subfolders" option in
Advanced Find/Browse... That was enabled by default, and this way it worked
fine for me. It worked both on my own mailbox (cached mode), and in other
mailboxes that are on Exchange Server.

Where is the equivalent in Outlook 2007? It not only seems to be the
opposite behavior now (default is no subfolder search), but I can't find a
way to enable subfolder search.

Thanks!

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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Dec 28, 2006, 1:58:44 AM12/28/06
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In the search pane, click on the down arrow and select options. You can enable this search from the bottom-most radio button.

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Mike

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Dec 28, 2006, 2:14:00 AM12/28/06
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Thank you, Milly. What you describe (Search Options/Instant Search Pane/When
searching, show results from:) seems to be different from the old option that
I am trying to find. With the old option I could select a folder, and then
decide whether to search its subfolders or not. If I select this new "All
folders" option Outlook will search all folders, not just the selected folder
and its subfolders. That's not what I need. I use Outlook to access 50 or so
mail accounts on the same Exchange Server, and each of them has subfolders in
the Inbox. Plus my own account. Some of these are very structured, so I used
to browse, click once, and then search inside. I need to be able to search
for mail like it was possible with Outlook 2003, i.e. in any Inbox (mine,
i.e. cached, or additional accounts) or folder thereof, with or without
subfolders.
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