Joe wrote:
I have a list of 30+ words and phrases that I need to seach in a
bunch of Word documents, in Office 2000 and Office XP. Is there a
way to save this list in a template or some other form so that one
can search Word documents without retyping each word and phrase on
the list.


It's certainly possible to write a macro to search each document for each
word/phrase in a list. The article at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/BatchFR.htm shows how to do a Replace
All operation for one word or phrase in all the documents in a folder. It
could be altered to take input from another document that contains the list,
and repeat the search for each item in the list.

The big question is, what do you want to do when you find one of the
words/phrases in a document? Do you want to do a replacement, or write a
list of the found locations to yet another document, or...??

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