X1 Professional Client search is a tremendous tool and timesaver as it can find e-mail messages and attachments, system files and documents, appointments and calendar entries, contacts, and even pictures, music, and Web sites.For a topical guide to this subject, see Outline of search engines. However, I want to make sure I'll be able to search all my outlook email that is archived and stored.

What has made me pause from getting another Lenovo already is the ability to run Outlook 2011 in the Mac's native OS coupled with Exchange 2007 that will allow other support features. I understand you can run Win7 and Outlook in a virtual partition on the MacBook, but if I need to run two OS', then it doesn't justify making the switch, IMO. I'm considering a change from my current Lenovo laptop to a MacBook Pro for work and find this thread the most important consideration if I decide to switch. Need for Outlook 2011 detailed email search Long story short: the original poster will be best served by HoudahSpot.īTW, both HoudahSpot and Tembo have demo versions available.įor HoudahSpot there are screencasts available showing how to make the best use of it. Once I need to dig deeper, find a well hidden file, I head for HoudahSpot. I find myself using Tembo for most common searches. messages may be filtered by recipient, sender or subject. You may drill down into a category to find context sensitive filters. The reason is that Tembo has a very different purpose. Then it adds a few features of its own: excluding locations from search, find by example, text preview,Īnd then it also is a file tagging solution based upon the OpenMeta technology.īy comparison, Tembo appears quite tame. HoudahSpot unleashes the full power of the Spotlight engine: boolean searches, searching multiple locations, displaying a lot of metadata, As the developer of HoudahSpot and Tembo, I would like to chime in with a few precisions.

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