Hi Trina,
Are you noticing a difference between the Outlook client views and the web client? In the Outlook Client, it should search within the View as you desire.
I can understand your frustration with regards to how you were hoping it could work. The thing I appreciate about the fact that it searches across all Active is that users might have a tendency to enter in a duplicate if they do not find what they are looking for in a search--not realizing they are not searching the entire database. So, there are pros and cons on either side.