Outlook 2007 - Search Tasks

[Stefan Burri]

In the previous version of Outlook (XP) I was able to save advanced searches
which allowed to quickly search for any incompleted tasks. The advanced
search can no longer be saved as a template and I am looking for a way to
quickly search for incomplete tasks. To everytime define the search criterias
in advanced find is slowing down the process and the search function of the
new Office and/or Vista is also not powerful enough to deliver quick results.
Does anyone have a solution to this probelm? Any help is appreciated.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Create a custom view.

 

[Stefan Burri]

Thanks Roady. The custom views don't solve the problem. I have some 300 open
tasks which I have categorized and display with custom viewes (e.g. open
today). But I sometimes need to search for a task which is in the future and
I used saved advanced finds in the pevious version of Outlook. I can however
not save those anymore since the registry prevents to save advanced finds in
combination with ost files. Stefan

 

[Roady [MVP]]

True, and there is no direct way to work around it but most of the saved
search queries can be rebuild as a custom view. Which exact criteria did you
use in your saved search?

 

[Stefan Burri]

My saved sarches were based on the following criterias:
Complete = no
Subject or Text = "individual search string"

So can I now do a custom view where I change each time the search string?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

You can create a custom view based on the "Not Completed" status and then
use the Instant Search feature to change the search string.