For the longest time, I’ve been using Advanced Find and enabled its Query Builder to perform searches with multiple criteria and Boolean statements.

This works quite well but it can sometimes be slow to set up such a search within the Advanced Find window.

Can I also perform Boolean and multi criteria searches in Outlook without using Advanced Find?

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I heavily rely on the Search feature within Outlook to efficiently triage my emails. However, something appears to have been changed to how Search works. For instance;

• When I move messages from my Search results to a different folder, this isn’t directly reflected in the Search results anymore (when sorted by folder).
• Mailbox wide searches are always sorted by date instead of by folder.
• The Categories column isn’t shown even though it is added to the View.
• Categories are shown when the message is opened in the Reading Pane but I can’t remove them.

How I can I return Outlook’s Search behavior back to the way it was before?

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When adding attendees to my meeting invitation, for some of the attendees, their free/busy status shows as “No Information” in the Scheduling Assistant.

Why is this and how can I make Outlook retrieve this information again for this attendee?

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I’m sorting my emails into multiple folders and therefor frequently use the Search feature with the scope set to “Current Mailbox”, “All Mailboxes” or even “All Outlook Items”.

However, this also returns some unwanted results from folders which are basically always irrelevant to me.

For instance, I always want to exclude the following folders from my search results: Drafts, Deleted Items, Junk E-mail, RSS Subscriptions, Newsletters, Social Media Updates and some more.

Is there any way to apply such a search filter without complicating my search query?

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I've received a message with images in it which are located on the Internet. Outlook blocks these images from being downloaded, but even when I tell Outlook to download the images they will not show.

I've completely disabled the picture blocking feature in Trust Center-> Automatic Download now and they still don't download and only show the infamous broken image icon with a red X. This applies to all the emails that I get with Internet  images from different senders so I know it is not an issue with how the message was composed or that the images are no longer available on the web server.

How can I get Outlook to download these images?

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Instant Search doesn't display any results at all, only displays results before a certain date or always shows that there are items left to index. I let it index overnight but nothing has changed.

How can I get it to completely index my messages?

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With the latest update for Outlook 2016, I noticed that I no longer have the Advanced Find feature. Is this a bug or was this an intentional change?

I regularly use Advanced Find for search queries that I can’t seem to perform via the small Search box at the top of my message list.

Is there any way to to get Advanced Find back in Outlook 2016?

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I noticed that Outlook’s search feature is case insensitive and I’m looking for an option to change this.

The reason I ask is because I have several friends and relatives that have names or last names that are also common words.

For instance first names such as; Hope, Sky, May, Norm, or Guy. And maybe even more frequently for last names such as; Brown, Winter, Black, Baker, Cook, or Young.

So when I search for their names, I get a lot of emails returned which contain the word instead of the name. With a case sensitive search, I hope to be able to distinguish between the two.

Is there a way to perform case sensitive searches in Outlook?

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Whenever I send an attachment through Outlook, the recipient receives the email without the attachment although they sometimes say that it got renamed to winmail.dat.

It happens to all attachments regardless of who I send it to and the format of the file (e.g. PDF, Word, jpg, etc). If I send the same attachment through web mail or from another computer, the attachment remains intact and is received in the email.

I've tried turning off my anti-virus program but that's not made any difference, so I'm assuming the issue must be within Outlook itself.

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I frequently search through my entire mailbox rather than just a single folder as I store my mails in multiple folders and also want to include the Sent Items folder.

However, this makes the Search results a bit cluttered as obviously there is no folder structure anymore.

Is there a way to color code the results based on the folder?
For instance, results from the Inbox will stay black, Sent Items will be blue and Deleted Items will be red.

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