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Subject:Re: search for file contents? From:"Nagai, Paul" <pnagai -at- VISA -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:16:55 -0800
> >defined. Does anyone know whether it's possible to do a
> >search on the contents of *.doc or *.txt files to locate a specific
> string
> >of characters? If it is possible, how do I do it, please?
>
Sorry, I may have missed someone providing this suggestion already. However,
just in case: Textpad, a shareware Windows text editing tool, has the
capability of searching text files within a directory. http://www.textpad.com/
