Bring back Advanced Find to Outlook Search Tools
Starting with July-August updates Advanced Find option has been removed from Search Tools in Outlook 2016.
Michael Pirogovsky
shared this idea
Thank you for your feedback. We have brought Advanced Find back to Outlook based on feedback from our customers.
Sincerely,
Outlook Team
151 comments
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David
commented
PUT IT BACK IN! Who's ignorant idea was it to remove? Find that person and SHOOT HIM! (Of course I don't mean to truly shoot a person, just flog him - LOL.)
This is a great feature. I can't imagine ANYONE saying it's not needed or is broken.
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Joe
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Why was this removed; I used this feature at least 20 times a day. I get close to 300 emails a day and need to pinpoint my searches. a general search or ID-10T search does not work. If you are not going to add the feature back in; please leave in the ability to search by fields; to: from: subject: etcetera.
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David
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PUT IT BACK IN! Who's ignorant idea was it to remove? Find that person and SHOOT HIM!
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derjo
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I can´t work any more with outlook!
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Btrymanaz
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I had continuously used this feature to save time. I can't believe this. Apparently the developers do even use the software to understand important features.
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Jan Petersen
commented
Does anybody at Microsoft use email???
You can't exist in Outlook without advanced search if you get more than a few mails.
If it was underused it was probably because you hid it under "More".
You can't just remove an important tool and then promise something new in some future version. Some of us actually have work to do and you just made it harder.
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derjo
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are you kidding? The normal search is ********, without advanced search I cannot survive in my 10.000 emails!
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Marcello
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hoping that Advanced Find will be restored soon, in the meantime I downgraded with this procedure:
Here are the steps to downgrade:- open cmd as Admin
- execute in cmd : cd %programfiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\ClickToRun
- execute in cmd : officec2rclient.exe /update user updatetoversion=16.0.8229.2086
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Bruce
commented
The bigger issue is that companies continue to purchase Microsoft products when it is well known that Microsoft intentionally creates software that is difficult for their customers to use. The search utility is just one example where Microsoft is failing; advanced search is fine and should remain but the regular search should allow for wildcards. It's easy to code and makes for a happier user base. I can only guess that Microsoft does not want to have happy users.
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Marcello
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How is it possibile to remove a feature without any warning ? I am really disappointed, I wasted a lot of time in reinstalling Office. Are you pushing me to switch to Thunderbird ? Please bring back Advance Find.
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billclegg
commented
Bring back advanced search! Why on earth would you remove such a useful feature??
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Julie
commented
I receive & send hundreds of emails a day, advanced find (CTRL-SHIFT-F shortcut) was my most valuable tool! please bring it back!!
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serkan
commented
We need Advanced Find options. Please don't remove...
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R Jacquemard
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This was also my most-used feature in Outlook !
This is UNACCEPTABLE !!!
Bring this option back !!!!!!!!!!!!!! -
David Voska
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This was a must have tool for me to go back to a specific information burried somewhere within thousands of e-mails I have in my mailbox and I used it on daily basis. Why would any sane person remove this feature without an adequate replacement is beyond me.
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Gökhan Kaya
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This was super important, I was using it like every minute!
That is unbelievable, I just have spent 20minutes to figure out if my keyboard is broken!!There was many features that is decommissioned already in 2016 but this is totally unacceptable!
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Chris K2
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Microsoft removed the only search feature that was working well in Outlook. All others are bugged to the bones. Why are they so stupid?
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Jon
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I use Advanced Find many times a day. It saves me a huge amount of wasted time and effort. It is so useful I cannot believe it has been removed. Please bring it back ASAP !!!
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Clemens
commented
This was my most-used feature in Outlook. I used it all day. What the heck, Microsoft? Is there any other way to get my favorite search box to open?
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Lewis Eigen
commented
While I cannot agree with Martin Furholz's ascribing motivation of profit to the removing of advanced search, I would rather like to believe that Microsoft was trying to hit the sweet spot between too much complexity and needed functionality.
I continue to be amazed that with all the computer literacy that is increasing, Boolean searching on different fields or tags with ANDs, ORs, and NOTs in various combinations.
I do agree that Microsoft made an error here. If the worry is too much complexity the function can be hidden with a key shortcut but at least give the advanced user the best tools that the state of the art allows.
Or perhaps there was another reason for it. If so, I would like to understand it. But if a mistake, but it back in the next build please.
