See How to Find & ReplaceAll on a Batch of Documents in the Same Folder
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/BatchFR.htm
Replace text on a batch of files
http://www.gmayor.com/batch_replace.htm
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/VBA_Find_And_Replace.htm
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
"grammatim" wrote in message
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Did you ask the question correctly? I can't imagine Word searching
documents that are _not_ open.
Also, I haven't found a way to run a single search over several
documents at once!
On Apr 23, 7:40 am, "sammy" wrote:
I am running 2003 word and I have 8 or 9 documents open in the same folder
containing say 20 word documents.
I run the find command searching for a word in document but it only
reports
the word or phrase found in the documents that I have not opened and not
the
8 or 9 where the word or phrase exists also.
Do I need to install a patch and does this happen in 2007 word.
Thanks in advance
Sammy