Outlook "Find" Search Order

[Guest]

When using the "Find" feature at work, my Outlook 2003 returns results from
newest to oldest. At home, my Outlook 2003 searches the oldest emails first.
Meaning if I am looking for a message from a week ago, I have to wait and
wait as it slogs through the old stuff. I can't find an option to reverse
the search order. Help!

 

[Roady [MVP]]

You can't. It's a difference between how Outlook searches for Exchange
accounts and POP3 accounts. Since Outlook 2003 in general is slow I would
suggest to install an indexing application like Windows Desktop Search to
increase search performance.