The first method that you should always use to uninstall software such as Microsoft Office is from the official uninstaller.

Ģ - Uninstall Microsoft Office From Control Panel Or Settings If you need to reinstall Office, select the version you want to install and follow those steps: Microsoft 365, Office 2019, Office 2016, Office 2013, Office 2010, or Office 2007.After you restart your computer, the uninstall tool automatically re-opens to complete the final step of the uninstall process.Follow through the remaining screens and when prompted, restart your computer.Select the version you want to uninstall, and then select Next.

From the upper-right of the FireFox browser window, select the downloads arrow and then select SetupProd_OffScrub.exe.

I hope this gives a little better understanding of the problem. So all that to say that SARA is not effectively cleaning whatever still remains of these previous installations and I think this may be why when I then reinstall Office 2019 and try to search again in Outlook emails that search still does not find items which I know to exist in the emails. However, after the supposed cleaning and uninstallation of these versions by SARA, when I reboot and check again SARA continues to find instances of all the previous versions supposedly still on the laptop. I then noticed when I used the Microsoft 'uninstall tool' (SARA) that SARA finds traces of previous Microsoft Office versions (as I mentioned previously) so I used SARA to uninstall ALL versions (including 2019). So it seems like Outlook is not actually in the search indexing because it is excluded.

When I go to the Search setup I noticed that Microsoft Outlook is in the 'included' items in the search but also Microsoft Outlook appears next to it several times in the 'excluded' from search. Greetings Scannan, I am having trouble with my 2019 Microsoft Office Outlook because it is not able to search my email folders, that is, when I try to do a search for an item I know exists in an email folder it does not find the item.

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