Re: Search by text within file

On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 20:13:33 -0800 (PST), vista bill
<> wrote:

> On Jan 4, 3:10*am, Aamir <Aamir.4n1...@no.email.invalid> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > i don't know how to search any file containing my text within the file
> > in windows vista.
> > btw i don't like the new text search feature, its the one of the most
> > hated feature in vista on my list...
> >
> > e.g. i want to search "2012" in my all ms word file?
>
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>
> If you are searching for something in MS Word, why don't you simply
> use the "find" (Edit>Find) in Word instead of searching your whole
> computer for it? Or do I misunderstand what you are asking.


Edit | Find searches within the current file in Word. If I understand
his question correctly, he means "i don't know how to search [for] any
file containing my text". He wants to find a file which contains the
text in question.

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
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On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 08:21:03 -0700, Ken Blake, MVP wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 20:13:33 -0800 (PST), vista bill
> <> wrote:
>
>> On Jan 4, 3:10*am, Aamir <Aamir.4n1...@no.email.invalid> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> i don't know how to search any file containing my text within the file
>>> in windows vista.
>>> btw i don't like the new text search feature, its the one of the most
>>> hated feature in vista on my list...
>>>
>>> e.g. i want to search "2012" in my all ms word file?
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> If you are searching for something in MS Word, why don't you simply
>> use the "find" (Edit>Find) in Word instead of searching your whole
>> computer for it? Or do I misunderstand what you are asking.
>
>
> Edit | Find searches within the current file in Word. If I understand
> his question correctly, he means "i don't know how to search [for] any
> file containing my text". He wants to find a file which contains the
> text in question.

On my Word 2003 there is this command:

File -> File Search

which will search through files for given text.

You can select file types and directories, but I have no idea how
flexible it is. I see you can construct Boolean searches, but I didn't
note any regular expression capabilities in the few moments I spent
looking.

It wasn't obvious, but clicking on help and searching for "find text in
files" (no quotes) got it for me.

My MS Office 2003 is obviously not the latest; I assume the capability
exists in newer versions (but ya can't be sure, can ya?).

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 12:41:33 -0600, Aamir wrote:

> i think some understood my question wrong. i was talking about search in
> "Windows 7" not within ms office...
>
> btw does the "desktop search " works same as AgentRansack ..any idea?

But you *can* search within MS Office if you have it and the other
doesn't work for you.

Since I don't really know what your question means, just let me say that
Agent Ransack can search for files by name (including, if desired,
regular expressions) and can also search for text within a file. You can
also limit its search to a subset of folders, if you want. And it's
free.

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)