{"id":14964,"date":"2019-09-02T08:56:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T08:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=14964"},"modified":"2019-09-02T08:56:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T08:56:44","slug":"rebuild-index-when-outlook-instant-search-isnt-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/rebuild-index-when-outlook-instant-search-isnt-working\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Rebuild Index When Outlook Instant Search isn&#8217;t Working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outlook indexing not complete or suspended? Can&#8217;t search the mailbox using the Instant Search feature any longer? To fix such issue, you just need to rebuild the search index and you can get Outlook search working again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Rebuild Index When Outlook Instant Search isn&#8217;t Working<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/9-ways-to-open-control-panel-in-windows-10\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Open the Control Panel<\/a> with <strong>Large icons<\/strong> view and click on <strong>Indexing Options<\/strong>.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/indexing-options-control-panel.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"343\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14968\" \/><\/p>\n<p> \tFor Outlook 2013 \/ 2016 \/ 2019, you can also access the Indexing Options from within the Outlook application. Follow these steps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Click the <strong>File<\/strong> tab in Outlook, and then select <strong>Options<\/strong>.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/outlook-options-tab.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"462\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14969\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Next, choose the <strong>Search<\/strong> tab from the left column, and click on <strong>Indexing Options<\/strong>.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/outlook-search-options.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"577\" height=\"457\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14970\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>When the Indexing Options window appears, click on the <strong>Advanced<\/strong> button.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/indexing-options.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"492\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14971\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Under the Index Settings tab, click on <strong>Rebuild<\/strong>.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/rebuild-outlook-search-index.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"382\" height=\"491\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14972\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Outlook will prompt with a warning that rebuilding the index may take a long time to complete. Click <strong>OK<\/strong> to rebuild the entire search index.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/confirm-rebuilding-index.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"391\" height=\"159\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14973\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>You can continue to use Outlook when it&#8217;s building the index in the background. Just open the Indexing Options window again and you can view the index status. After Outlook has finished indexing all of your items, make sure to restart Windows.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outlook indexing not complete or suspended? Can&#8217;t search the mailbox using the Instant Search feature any longer? To fix such issue, you just need to rebuild the search index and you can get Outlook search working again. How to Rebuild Index When Outlook Instant Search isn&#8217;t Working Open the Control Panel with Large icons view [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[4318,4317,4316],"class_list":["post-14964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","tag-outlook-instant-search-not-working","tag-outlook-search-not-working","tag-rebuild-outlook-search-index"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14964"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14976,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14964\/revisions\/14976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}