Office 2016 search not showing everything
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Windows 10 machines of various versions with Office 2016 with latest updates are not returning all possible results when searching a location within the Office app.
Example:
user launches Word, Chooses Open Other Workbooks > Browse
This opens a File Explorer like Window that is Word branded in the upper left corner.- When the user searches their documents directory (over 10K documents in about 1000 folders) they are shown a list of about 50 things max.
- User opens File Explorer, searches their documents directory and are shown 1700+ files (when limited to only Word type documents).
Why is the application not showing everything? The application is definitely showing things in different folders, just not everything.
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My best guess before going to Google is there must be a cache list within the Office apps, and it only looks at folders that have been accessed since install of Office (remember this is a new machine for the user).
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I checked just now to see if indexing was installed and setup on the server for this share.
Installed - check
configured for this share - negative.So I checked the box for the required folders and now it's indexing. We'll see if this makes any difference.
