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gerard sanchis
Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2001 - 01:20 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

In WordPerefect it was easy to search for words or strings of words in a directory of folder. For instance to locate every occurance of "Samples."

How does one go about doing the same in MS Word? The "Find File" of Windows covers too much ground.
tommy mejia
Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2001 - 04:31 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

Hi Gerard,

Open the directory of the files you wish to search.

From the directory menu click on tools - "find"

Under "property" click on "contents"

Under "value" type in word or phrase

Click "add to list"

Click "find now"

Tommy
sheldon wolfe
Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2001 - 06:38 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

Although you can search for files with specific words inside of Word, it is remarkably slow. Instead, use Explorer. Simply right click on a directory (folder) and choose "find" on the pop-up menu (if you have Windows 2000 the function is called "search" instead).
Lynn Javoroski
Posted on Friday, September 28, 2001 - 02:46 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

I agree with Sheldon. Not only is the search operation in Word slow, it crashes my computer and I have to restart Word if I try to actually open what it found. Just make sure that you type the word or phrase in the correct box "named" or "containing text" and check the subfolder box if appropriate. It's faster and better.
Richard Hird
Posted on Friday, September 28, 2001 - 05:33 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

Why does anyone use Word?
John Regener, AIA, CCS
Posted on Saturday, September 29, 2001 - 02:19 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

Because you don't want to be a Luddite like me and stick with WordPerfect ... and I use Norton File Manager to find files with certain contents as well as good ol' simplistic WordPerfect 5.1.

Believe it or not, in Norton File Manager you can rename multiple files! Windows Explorer and other wizbang clones can't do this as far as I can tell.

It's the loss of these functions that make it too costly for me to move to Word.

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