searching for "A word or phrase in the file"

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yawnmoth

In Windows XP, you can search by "A word or phrase in the file". How
might one go about doing this in Windows Vista? I hit Ctrl + F, go to
Document, enable Advanced Search, and... there does not appear to be
any comparable option.

Any ideas?
 
In Windows XP, you can search by "A word or phrase in the file". How
might one go about doing this in Windows Vista? I hit Ctrl + F, go to
Document, enable Advanced Search, and... there does not appear to be
any comparable option.

Any ideas?
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Yawnmoth,

In Windows Search 4, no GUI option is needed, you just type in the word.
If you want to exclude file and folder names (i.e. search by file contents
only), that is easy to do. For example, this query returns only files
whose contents contain the word "dog":

dog -name:dog -kind:folder

Of course, if this is an indexed search, the file types in question must
be designated for content searching.

For more on advanced queries, see:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/technicalresources/advquery.mspx

Doug M. in NJ
 
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