Also noticed that the macro doesn't work for other languages (e.g. French) -> it's because the names "Public Folders" and "Favorites", which are hard-coded in the macro, are called something else in other languages. The quick fix is to replace these names in the macro with the equivalent names...
Just noticed that if you do the bit about creating a View called "Search Results", the macro will set the default view for any folder in which it found e-mails matching your search criterion to "Search Results", and this persists even after you have closed all search results windows (i.e. if you...
Sorry, one more thing: you may get a popup that says "The operation failed" - just click on OK to make it go away - I don't know the consequences of this error yet, but it doesn't (seem to) stop the search results from appearing ... maybe in the worst case one of your Public folders isn't...
One more thing: if your search criterion was too general, a great many windows will get created ! In Windows 7, float your mouse pointer over the Outlook icon in the task bar - this should show you a scrollable list of all of the (many !) search results windows that were created (one for each...
I can't tell you how frustrated I was that Microsoft disabled the Windows Search feature in Outlook 2016 !
The ability to perform a single search in all of my 200+ public folders (and in my Inbox), with the aggregate results being displayed in a single window, was invaluable !
This is my first...
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