G'Day (again) Steve,

Yes -- I thought you meant Office Xp. However my answer
remains essentially unchanged: Are you running the Win Xp
Indexing Service?

Search Help & Support for 'Indexing' or:
Right-Click "My Computer"
Click 'Manage'
In the left pane, Click on the '+' beside 'Services and
Applications'
Click 'Services'
In the right pane, look for 'Indexing Service' - is it running?

If NOT Right-Click 'Indexing Service'
Click Properties
Change 'Startup type' to "Automatic", 'n Click 'OK'.

It's possible that you may have to remove and re-install
Office 2000.

You show great taste in your choice of Wife!! Of course I
would have to validate HER taste - in some other lifetime.
--
Cheers,
Pat Garard
Melbourne, Australia
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"Steve" wrote in message
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Pat,

Thanks for replying. I guess I wasn't clear. I don't have Word XP. I use
Word 2000. The Find Files problem in Word 2000 began when I installed
Windows
XP, so I'm wondering if Word 2000's Find Files feature won't work under
Windows XP. I read at this site that Word 2000 is supposed to be fully
compatible with Windows XP, so that's what I got on my new computer. Now,
the
Word Find Files feature I really depend on won't work.

If you have any ideas, please fire away!

P.S. Greetings from Oregon, where I'm married to an Aussie.

"Pat Garard" wrote:

G'Day Steve,

In Word Xp, to the right of the Menubar, there is a box 'Type
a question for help'. Type 'find file' in this box and press Enter.

The 'Search' button is immediately to the Left of the 'Print'
button on the Standard Toolbar.

Be careful with the 'Selected locations' dropdown - when you
click a folder once, it is ticked and will be searched. If you click
it a second time, it remains ticked and the icon changes to indicate
that subfolders will also be searched.

You may need to activate the Indexing Service.
--
Regards,
Pat Garard
Melbourne, Australia
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"Steve" wrote in message
...
(I tried to submit this question a couple of days ago and believe it
was
not
received. I can't find any trace of that posting. I am NOT trying to
post
duplicate messages.)

Can anyone help me with this? I use Word 2000's Find File feature a lot
so
I
can search for a word that could be in any of several hundred Word
files.
This worked fine with Windows 98SE, but now that I've installed XP, I
can't
use Word's Find File feature. When I try to, I get an error message
saying
that "Word was unable to install the necessary filters. This search
cannot
be
completed."

I have uninstalled Word (and all of Office) and reinstalled it, but the
same
problem persists. Do anyone have any suggestions so I can solve this
problem,
keeping Word 2000 and XP?

Many thanks.
--
Steve