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Intelligent search of Text in Word Docs similar to Acrobat Find fu
I am looking for an application or other help to solve the follwoing problem.
I produce large documents for clients that are actually a set of individual reports. I need an application that can search through a number of these documents in a directory (and subdirectories) for a specified search string and display a line from the document where the string was found as well as the document name where the text was found. When a user clicks on on of these hits it will automatically open that target document and place the cursor on that exact location where the search string was found. I have seen a similar application work in Acrobat but it only works from within a document, not across a directory full of documents, and I need this for Microsoft Word documents, not *.pdf's. Does anyone know of such an application or how to go about developing such a capability? Thanks. -- Jim D. Tampa |
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Intelligent search of Text in Word Docs similar to Acrobat Fin
Yes, I am right on this. It will return all results, but when you see a Word
document in the results, it will show you how many other Word documents fit the bill...if you click on that number, then it filters your results to just Word docs. And you can limit the search to a certain directory from the start. http://desktop.google.com/gettingstarted.html - KC -- Please remember to indicate when the post is answered so others can benefit from it later. "KC Rippstein" wrote: I am 90% Google Desktop Search or Yahoo Desktop Search would meet your need. They will give you a result list similar to searching with Google or Yahoo, where it gives you the result in a one-line sample of its context along with a hyperlink to the actual document. Both are free programs for download. - KC -- Please remember to indicate when the post is answered so others can benefit from it later. "Jim D." wrote: I am looking for an application or other help to solve the follwoing problem. I produce large documents for clients that are actually a set of individual reports. I need an application that can search through a number of these documents in a directory (and subdirectories) for a specified search string and display a line from the document where the string was found as well as the document name where the text was found. When a user clicks on on of these hits it will automatically open that target document and place the cursor on that exact location where the search string was found. I have seen a similar application work in Acrobat but it only works from within a document, not across a directory full of documents, and I need this for Microsoft Word documents, not *.pdf's. Does anyone know of such an application or how to go about developing such a capability? Thanks. -- Jim D. Tampa |
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Intelligent search of Text in Word Docs similar to Acrobat Find fu
I am 90% Google Desktop Search or Yahoo Desktop Search would meet your need.
They will give you a result list similar to searching with Google or Yahoo, where it gives you the result in a one-line sample of its context along with a hyperlink to the actual document. Both are free programs for download. - KC -- Please remember to indicate when the post is answered so others can benefit from it later. "Jim D." wrote: I am looking for an application or other help to solve the follwoing problem. I produce large documents for clients that are actually a set of individual reports. I need an application that can search through a number of these documents in a directory (and subdirectories) for a specified search string and display a line from the document where the string was found as well as the document name where the text was found. When a user clicks on on of these hits it will automatically open that target document and place the cursor on that exact location where the search string was found. I have seen a similar application work in Acrobat but it only works from within a document, not across a directory full of documents, and I need this for Microsoft Word documents, not *.pdf's. Does anyone know of such an application or how to go about developing such a capability? Thanks. -- Jim D. Tampa |
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