Understanding Search queries with special characters is always important.
Searching a Special character – Let say the Subject contains “How are you ?” you search “?”
Understanding Search of substrings is also important
Searching a Substring – Let say the Subject Contains “Testtrick1” you search “Trick1”
1.When Outlook is in Online mode it uses the Exchange Search
2.When Outlook is in Cache mode it uses the Desktop Search otherwise called as Instant search
1. When Outlook is in Online mode it uses the Exchange Search
Searching a Special Character alone does not search in Exchange 2003,2007,2010
For Example “Subject: Do you have 10$”
Searching for a Special Character “$” Does not give us appropriate Results
Whole String 10$ Searches it
But Searching for 0$ – Substring does not work
Some Examples – subject is “Exchange2010?” – Searching for “2010?” substring does not work
2.When Outlook is in Cache mode it uses the Desktop Search otherwise called as Instant search
Searching a Special Character alone does not search in Outlook 2003,2007,2010
Instant Search will ignore this special characters as the index of Instant Search is word-based only
For the same example “Subject: Do you have 10$” having Outlook in Cache Mode
Searching for a Special Character “$” Does not give us appropriate Results
Whole String 10$ Searches it
But Searching for 0$ – Substring does not work
Some Examples – subject is “Exchange2010?” – Searching for “2010?” substring does not work
This how its designed to give out better search results instantly !!
Satheshwaran
Thank you for your reply to my issue with Outlook 2010 searching for special char, I assume that since my outlook is always in online mode that I cannot conveniently search special chars in the subject line or text. My search queries will always come back with inappropriate results. Thank you for your time and efforts in repling to the thread I posted in the forum for Outlook.
Sincerely
Reinhard klinger.
You are most welcome Reinhard !.
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If you search in Online Mode . You search query hits the Exchange Server
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If you Search in Offline mode . Your Search is done on the local machine.
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But Both Doesn’t support Searching Special Characters
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Am I right that in on-line mode the “exchange Search” doesn’t allow AQS so “subject:test” “hasattachmets” and “from:marc” will not work either ….it seems to ma that only all words entered are AND-ed and that’s it, right ?
Hi Marc,
The AND parameter won’t work in Exchange Search nor in Cache mode.
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