File Search feature

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Horatio Skimmington

Hi all! I just upgraded from Word XP to Word 2003. I've
noticed that the file search feature, which worked like a
gem in Word XP, doesn't seem to find anything in 2003.
Has anyone else had this problem?

HS
 
Horatio said:
Hi all! I just upgraded from Word XP to Word 2003. I've
noticed that the file search feature, which worked like a
gem in Word XP, doesn't seem to find anything in 2003.
Has anyone else had this problem?
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Can you give an example of what you're looking for and not finding?

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Sure. I have a number of files (mostly 2ord xp files) in
the My Documents folder. If a pick a word that appears
in several of the files and ask file search to find that
word, searching in the my documents folder, it announces
that the search has found no matches. I ran the same
search on my laptop, which still has word xp, and it
found 35 instances of the word I searched for. Which
suggests that there is a problem in 2003.
 
Ok, this is weird. I finally got it to work -- by having
it search the whole C drive. When I asked it to search
just the my documents folder, however, it yielded no
results! Must be a strange little bug.
 
Did you check any sub folders of my documents - it works fine here :)

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You mean you have to check subfolders! Wow!

Thanks, Graham!

Sheepishly,

H.S.
 
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