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Searching a particular directory
Sorry to ask what I suspect is a very basic question, but I can't find the
answer. Is there a way, in Word, to search for a particular word or phrase in a sub-directory of My Documents? I'm using Word 2000 under Windows XP Pro SP2. Many thanks. |
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Using Windows Explorer select the folder. Click 'search' on the toolbar.
Select 'Documents'. Click the advanced search options and enter the word or phrase in the appropriate dialog. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Bert Coules wrote: Sorry to ask what I suspect is a very basic question, but I can't find the answer. Is there a way, in Word, to search for a particular word or phrase in a sub-directory of My Documents? I'm using Word 2000 under Windows XP Pro SP2. Many thanks. |
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Graham,
Thanks so much for that. I hadn't twigged that it was possible to use Search when a single subdirectory was called up in Win Explorer - I've been trying it with the Search option in the Start menu which doesn't appear to allow the selection of anything below My Documents. I said I thought it was a very basic question... Bert |
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Actually it does. At the screen with the dialog - Look In, there is a tiny
arrow to the right of the text window. Click that and at the bottom you will find 'browse'. Use that to select the folder you want to search. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Bert Coules wrote: Graham, Thanks so much for that. I hadn't twigged that it was possible to use Search when a single subdirectory was called up in Win Explorer - I've been trying it with the Search option in the Start menu which doesn't appear to allow the selection of anything below My Documents. I said I thought it was a very basic question... Bert |
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Good grief, I've clicked that arrow countless times and never noticed that
final Browse option. Thank you! It does make me wonder which other utterly basic Windows features there are that I know nothing about. Bert |
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Probably dozens: I keep finding something new nearly every day, most of them
are 'slap on the forehead' finds too that I am too embarrassed to share! Terry Farrell "Bert Coules" wrote in message o.uk... Good grief, I've clicked that arrow countless times and never noticed that final Browse option. Thank you! It does make me wonder which other utterly basic Windows features there are that I know nothing about. Bert |
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Thanks; that makes me feel considerably better.
As a final thought on the search-within-a-particular-subdirectory thing, it seems a pity that it can't be done from the File/Open menu in Word itself; it feels very slightly awkward to have to leave the program in order to find something to load into it. And now, someone will tell me that it *can* be done, and utterly simply too... Bert |
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