---
title: "Lookout for Outlook"
url: https://lookeen.com/blog/lookout-for-outlook-2
lang: en
description: "Lookout was a search plugin for Microsoft Outlook that has not been available since Windows Vista and Office 2007. Are you looking for an alternative?"
author: "Axonic"
published: 2009-12-01T07:03:20+00:00
modified: 2026-11-11T07:22:44+00:00
---

# Lookout for Outlook

For many users, Microsoft Outlook is an email client that is ideally suited to managing all email traffic. Contact details and calendar entries can also be created, edited, and forwarded efficiently with the client. Since so much content can accumulate in this way, it is often difficult to keep track of everything, and specific emails and attachments can only be found with great effort. However, there is a small tool designed to address this problem.

![The alternative to the former Lookout: the desktop search Lookeen](https://lookeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/lookout-logo.png)

[Learn how to stay on top of your emails, contacts, and appointments here!](https://lookeen.com/solutions/outlook-search/outlook-search)

## How to Keep Track of Everything…

Lookout is the name of the free add-in for Outlook. It is a powerful search function that allows you to find specific content in just a few moments. Once the user enters the respective search term, it takes only a few seconds for the plug-in to deliver useful information such as file size and send date for the searched file. Not only e-mails and attachments but also notes and the address book can be searched. Lookout is particularly aimed at users who have accumulated large amounts of Outlook content and want to access it quickly at any time. The freeware tool is only slightly over 1 MB in size and can be installed up to the operating system Windows XP and Office 2003. Starting with Windows Vista and Office 2007, Lookout is no longer compatible.

If you still do not want to do without a useful tool for searching through Outlook (which is already inevitably the case for many companies with a high volume of network data), then you can rely on professional search tools such as [Lookeen](https://lookeen.com/product/overview).