How do you stop a search in Outlook 2007?

[M Skabialka]

I was searching for an item in Outlook 2007 and didn't find it in my Inbox,
so clicked on Try searching again in All Mail Items. I could see this was
going to take a while so wanted to cancel the search but couldn't find any
way of doing it. ESC, CTRL X, CTRL C, DEL - nothing worked. Is there a way
to cancel a search in progress in Outlook 2007?
Mich

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

did you try clicking the x to the right of the search field?

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[M Skabialka]

Although a mouseover on the X shows "Stop Search" - it doesn't. You can
tell this by trying to scroll through the results with the vertical
scrollbar - you just get an hourglass, and the progress bar keeps running
under All Mail Items (Search Results) and the search criteria window. It
only seems to stop when it is done, which with a dozen .pst files takes
quite a while.

did you try clicking the x to the right of the search field?

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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I was searching for an item in Outlook 2007 and didn't find it in my
Inbox, so clicked on Try searching again in All Mail Items. I could see
this was going to take a while so wanted to cancel the search but
couldn't find any way of doing it. ESC, CTRL X, CTRL C, DEL - nothing
worked. Is there a way to cancel a search in progress in Outlook 2007?
Mich