Tecsi wrote:
I am using Word as a mega-bucket for all my notes. Related notes are
scattered all over this document. I want to be able to find all
instances of a text string, and display all these (and the
sentence/paragraph they are in) in one place--probably a scrollable
window so I can quickly find the relevant "note".

The current Find All is way too tedious to do this as I can only see
one instance at a time.

Ideally, I would like the instances appearing in the separate window
to hyperlink to their source location, so I can quickly see AND get
to the relevant note.

Is there something that does this, or something close?

Thanks
Tecsi

There is nothing built into Word that you can simply "turn on".

It would be possible to write a macro that creates a separate document to
hold the scrolling list, does the search, copies the paragraph containing
each "hit" into the other document, and attaches a hyperlink to the original
passage. While it's possible, it wouldn't be particularly user-friendly.

Let me suggest instead that you should look at OneNote, a separate
application that's built to do pretty much what you asked for. See
http://office.microsoft.com/onenote.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org