Re: Cross document searching in Word 97

[Carl Chatfield <carlch -at- MICROSOFT -dot- COM>]

Just FYI, the capability in Word 97 described below is enabled by an Office
97 utility called Find Fast. If you did not install Find Fast as part of
your Word or Office installation, advanced searching may not be available at
all, or may be very slow. Find Fast indexes all Word (and other Office and
HTML) documents on your drive, so searching is pretty fast.

You can find more information about Find Fast at
http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/026/026.htm
<http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/026/026.htm> .

Regards,

Carl Chatfield
Documentation Manager, Microsoft Project
Microsoft Corporation


        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Keith Soltys [SMTP:ksoltys -at- DJTTD -dot- COM]
        Sent:   Tuesday, January 20, 1998 11:01 AM
        To:     TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
        Subject:        Cross document searching in Word 97

        In response to an earlier message about searching across documents
in Word, I
        posted a message recommending a third-party utility, Search and
Replace by
        Funduc Software. However, if you are using Word 97, there is another
option.
        Just click on the Advanced button in the File Open dialog.

        You are presented with an Advanced Find dialog box that lets you
search on
        just about anything you can think of. For example, I was able to
create as
        search that looked for all files of type *.* in my document
directory and
        subdirectories that had been saved by myself and contained phrases
that
        started with "Network Server is".

        This is a vast improvement over what was available with Word 6. It's
still
        not as powerful as Search and Replace or as fast,  but if you have
Word 97
        you may not need anything better.

        Regards
        Keith

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