Search no longer works in Outlook.

The Outlook In App Team escalated an incident for this issue. Sharing the update so you know it's being worked on.

Hello D L Sampson,

Good day! Thank you for posting this case in Microsoft Community!

Based on your description: Search no longer works in Outlook. I would like to cooperate with you working on this case. To clarify this case, please kindly provide us your Outlook version with product details by going to Outlook>File>Office Account and share that entire page screenshot with hide personal information. What version of Outlook do I have? For my suggestion, you may try following workaround to narrow down this case:

1. Firstly, you may try to restart your Outlook and Windows system to check again. If not working, you may try to select the Startbutton, select Settings > Update & Security, and then select Troubleshoot. Find and click Search and Indexing, and click Run the troubleshooter. This will help to check the issue.
2. If still no results, please verify the Indexing is complete. Here are the steps:

• Start Outlook and click in the Search box.
• Select Search Tools > Indexing Statusfrom theSearch menu.
• When the Indexing Statusdialog appears, you should see the following:

If Outlook has not finished indexing, note the items remaining to be indexed, wait 5 minutes, and then check again. If the number of items did not decrease, continue to the next step.

3. Then you may try to Fix search issues by rebuilding your Instant Search catalog and complete all the steps.
4. Next you may try to re-create another Outlook profile and test it again. Create an Outlook profile - Microsoft Support
5. You may also try to Repair an Office application - Microsoft Support via Control Panel.

See more information, you may check this article as reference Troubleshooting Outlook search issues and perform all the steps completely.

Hope the above workaround would be helpful. If you need further assistance, please feel free to let me know, I will keep assisting you.

Your understanding and patience will be appreciated.

Thank you!

For me, the search box in Outlook on the web works. For me the search box does not work in the desktop app as screen seems to jump to home tab and exits the box not allowing text input -- except a few instances after clicking repeatedly in the search box that allowed one character of input and not allowing selection of folders. When WIFI is off, the search box works.

PS The search is now working for me. xx

PS It now is not working again.

PS The search is now working for me.

Does this issue also occur if you search from Outlook.com on the web? The Outlook In App support teams for both classic Outlook and New Outlook have gotten support tickets on this. The teams are working on getting it escalated.

Is there a proper fix for this? It started happing to me as well!