

Know that after you perform some Outlook Search Not Working fix methods outlined below, the search feature in Outlook may not immediately begin to work properly, as Spotlight may need some time before it indexes all data contained in your Outlook profile. What we suggest is completing the following potential troubleshooting methods until one of them resolves the problem for you. Therefore, figuring out the root of the issue is a matter of trial and error.

Unfortunately, it’s usually not possible to know exactly which of these potential causes is the one that triggers the “No Results” problem in your case. Unfortunately, it’s also possible (though unlikely) that the Spotlight index has been corrupted, in which case you’d need to get Spotlight to re-index all Outlook messages. In such cases, it may be enough to just wait for some time and allow Spotlight to finish its indexing. Therefore, one of the reasons that you get the “No Result” error is that Spotlight is still in the process of indexing newly-added information – for example, if a new profile has recently been added to Outlook.

There is an Outlook update that needs to be installed – Though it’s relatively unlikely that the “No Results” error is caused by the fact that you are using an older Outlook version, it won’t harm to check if there are any pending updates and install them.There are special characters in the name of a profile – If the name of your Outlook profile contains special characters such as (/), (\), (!), (*), (-), or others, this could be a possible cause for the Outlook search feature not working properly and yielding the “No Results” message.Your Outlook profile is listed in the Privacy tab of Spotlight – if a given item is listed in that tab in the Spotlight settings, this means that Spotlight isn’t allowed to access it, which could explain why you aren’t getting any search results when you search for something in Outlook.

Below are the main possible causes of this problem: Usually, the cause of this bug/error can be fixed easily.
