searching for number in contacts doesnt work in outlook 2007

[Gizzo]

i used to be able to search for a contact by using a part of his
telephone or mobile phone number thru advanced search on outlook 2003.

i've upgraded to outlook2007 and vista and i can no longer do it. it
returns a "No Matches Found" error.

I've checked the index and I am indexing the correct pst file and it
shows that indexing has been complete (0 records left to index)

pls help

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

I just tried that and it worked fine if I chose "Frequently Used Text
Fields" or "Phone number fields" for the area to search

 

[Gizzo]

That's what boggles me. It used to work fine and it should work fine
but it's not and i dont know what's wrong.

even searching the notes folder which are simple text files is not
working. to test i even search for a text to a note that is on top of
the list and i can see staring right at me. when i search it says no
results. mind boggling!

what am i doing wrong?

 

[Gizzo]

I know it should work but for some reason it aint working with mine. i
also see it searching thru Notes, even when i see the note on my face,
when i use the search facility it just cannot find it.

is there anything i did wrong?

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

Very odd... this is a real long shot but you might want to run ScanPST.EXE
on your PST file

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Very frequent problem. Start here:
http://www.msoutlook.info/question/47