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File Search Preview Pane
Can anyone tell me how to activate a preview pane in File Search
or suggest a workaround? In my version of Word 2003, there is a Views button in the Open window, but not in File Search. In Word 2000, File Search (or Find File) did have a View button, and it was VERY useful. That is what I want back. If Open and File Search worked together so that only the found files show in the Open window, that would work too, but Open and File Search do not seem to work together that way. Now I can only seem to select one of the found files at a time, hope and pray that it is the right one. If not, I have to wait through another tortuous File Search session, since File Search closes after you select a file and does not save its previous results. |
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Sorry-
It looks like that has been taken away. The only option I've found is to select the found file you believe to be the right one, click OK & use the Open dialog box Preview to check it out. The good news is that if not the right file you can just go back into the Search window & your settings & found files will still be there. Regards |:) "ndolinger" wrote: Can anyone tell me how to activate a preview pane in File Search or suggest a workaround? In my version of Word 2003, there is a Views button in the Open window, but not in File Search. In Word 2000, File Search (or Find File) did have a View button, and it was VERY useful. That is what I want back. If Open and File Search worked together so that only the found files show in the Open window, that would work too, but Open and File Search do not seem to work together that way. Now I can only seem to select one of the found files at a time, hope and pray that it is the right one. If not, I have to wait through another tortuous File Search session, since File Search closes after you select a file and does not save its previous results. |
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OK, thanks for checking. I guess I will have to turn this into a suggestion
to Microsoft. It's a shame that I have to request something be added that used to be part of the program. I cannot see that taking it out represented an improvement. In the short-term, how do I get the File Search window to stay open when I pick a file to open? Now when I select from the found files, Word copies that file to the Open window but then closes the File Search window, losing the list of found files--sometimes several dozens long! If I picked the wrong file to Open, I have to run the File Search again (though the search terms do remain there from before). "CyberTaz" wrote: Sorry- It looks like that has been taken away. The only option I've found is to select the found file you believe to be the right one, click OK & use the Open dialog box Preview to check it out. The good news is that if not the right file you can just go back into the Search window & your settings & found files will still be there. Regards |:) "ndolinger" wrote: Can anyone tell me how to activate a preview pane in File Search or suggest a workaround? In my version of Word 2003, there is a Views button in the Open window, but not in File Search. In Word 2000, File Search (or Find File) did have a View button, and it was VERY useful. That is what I want back. If Open and File Search worked together so that only the found files show in the Open window, that would work too, but Open and File Search do not seem to work together that way. Now I can only seem to select one of the found files at a time, hope and pray that it is the right one. If not, I have to wait through another tortuous File Search session, since File Search closes after you select a file and does not save its previous results. |
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