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MS Office Forum / Outlook / New Users / May 2005Searching for text in HTML formatted messages
Hello, I have come up against a problem that I have as yet not been able to find a solution to, either on the www, or in Usenet. I have searched for relevant issues within several newsgroups and still not found an answer. The problem is this: I am trying to search emails for set words, but don't get all results. It seems that any emails in HTML format are not found by the search engine. I can find words in their headers, but not words in the bodies of HTML formatted emails. Does anyone have any idea what is wrong?? (Currently using Outlook 2003) TIA Ian J. > Hello, > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Does anyone have any idea what is wrong?? Hmmm. It works fine here. Could it be that the text is embedded in an HTML image of some kind and not actually text in the body of the message?  Signature-Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote/Outlook Operations Coordinator Stockholm/KSG - Honolulu Microsoft OneNote FAQ: http://home.hawaii.rr.com/schorr/computers/onenotefaq.htm >> Hello, >> [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > Hmmm. It works fine here. Could it be that the text is embedded in an > HTML image of some kind and not actually text in the body of the message? Thx for replying. No, I have checked the message by viewing the source, and it is definitely showing text that I would have thought would be searchable. Normal rich and plain text messages are fine, it seems to be just the HTML ones with the trouble. Ian J. > Thx for replying. No, I have checked the message by viewing the source, > and [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > ones with the trouble. > Ian J. Hmmm. Do you have all of the latest service packs installed? Do those HTML messages also include images or downloadable content? Signature-Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote/Outlook Operations Coordinator Stockholm/KSG - Honolulu Microsoft OneNote FAQ: http://home.hawaii.rr.com/schorr/computers/onenotefaq.htm >> Thx for replying. No, I have checked the message by viewing the source, >> and [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Hmmm. Do you have all of the latest service packs installed? Do those > HTML messages also include images or downloadable content? To the best of my knowledge, all updates have been applied. XP is on SP2, and office 2003 is on SP1. Sue Mosher suggested another app to look at, so I will try that. Thx so far, Ian J. I'd suggest that you download and install the free Lookout application from Microsoft. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=09b835ee-16e5-4961-91b8 -2200ba31ea37&DisplayLang=en It vastly improves searching, both in speed and in available features. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Hello, > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Ian J. Sue, will this work with the rules wizard in Outlook 2003? My main reason for searching to find text in HTML emails was to work out why the Rules wizard wouldn't move messages based on rules I created. I traced this to the failure to find words using the Find facility. Also, if the search should work on Outlook with HTML, then it suggests something is wrong with my installation of Office 2003. I will look into getting that repaired (though I don't know why it would be wrong as everything else seems to work ok except I can't click on a link in an email or news posting and have it open up in IE) Ian J. I'd suggest that you download and install the free Lookout application from Microsoft. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=09b835ee-16e5-4961-91b8 -2200ba31ea37&DisplayLang=en It vastly improves searching, both in speed and in available features. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Hello, > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Ian J. The Rules Wizard doesn't handle HTML text consistently. (I suspect it's partly because of the way text can be embedded in many different ways in the body of an HTML message.) SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Sue, will this work with the rules wizard in Outlook 2003? My main reason > for searching to find text in HTML emails was to work out why the Rules [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > It vastly improves searching, both in speed and in available features. >> Hello, >> [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >> >> Ian J. Hmmm. Seems odd that the Rules wouldn't be able to search through the HTML as text (like in Notepad) rather than as some kind of code. But there you go. One for Microsoft to change perhaps?? They'll certainly need to if Outlook is to maintain any level of customisability with regards to filtering Junk email using the Rules... (which is what I'm trying to do - I don't want my ISP deciding what is and is not spam on my main email account). Ian J. The Rules Wizard doesn't handle HTML text consistently. (I suspect it's partly because of the way text can be embedded in many different ways in the body of an HTML message.) SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Sue, will this work with the rules wizard in Outlook 2003? My main reason > for searching to find text in HTML emails was to work out why the Rules [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > It vastly improves searching, both in speed and in available features. > "Ian J." <leftfield42@hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:3g0ctlF9tn9iU1@individual.net... [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >> >> Ian J. |
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