Unable to search content in a PDF in Outlook

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SeekerLola

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I am running Outlook 2016 on Windows 10.
I have always been able to run searches for specific words which can be found in the content of PDF attachments in my mail.
My PC crashed earlier in the week; our IT guy re-installed Windows and Office; using the same version of Acrobat Reader DC, but it won't pick up the content in searches anymore.
I have had this problem before on a previous PC and I have read and tried many of the solutions offered online; rebuilding the indexes does not work (in the previous instance, literally one day it just started working; the mind boggles).
Since it's Windows 10 it already has an iFilter
I have checked to see that PDF is selected under File Types.
Index Properties and File Contents selected.
Rebuilt indexes... took forever, but nothing has changed.
I have tried the various options presented by the Search Function within Outlook - Attachment Contains... blah, blah
Adobe is my default app to open PDFs...

It must be a setting that is different... because all the programs are the same as before...I just don't know what setting it is.

Any ideas?
I have to get this working; it's almost impossible for me to work without this function.
 
have you saved one of those PDF attachments and tried searching from within Adobe Reader on that file, that'll confirm it is/isn't Adobe itself.
what about a repair install of Office(try both the quick and the online), a reinstall of Adobe, creating another Outlook profile and a SCANPST of your outlook personal file.
 
Any update for us SeekerLola? This thread will be closed if not replied to within 48hrs.
 
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