I am just searching for words. For example I want to find out "he went
fishing in the lake." I search for "fishing" and "lake" to find out where in
the book this event took place. Now, if Word doesn't 'think' in terms of
sentences, does it think in terms of paragraphs? I would settle for earching
two words in the same paragraph.
I do not need to process the words. I am looking though books. For
example, one book has 400K words.

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:

Hi Philos,

Some of Word's solutions require a macro rather
than just using the Word user interface. You didn't
mention if you are just searching for those words or
if you have a need to do processing of some type
on them once found, but it sounds like you're
looking to do a conditional search (i.e. if within
a sentence you find 'same' then look for 'drink'
else, stop looking).

Word doesn't really 'think' in terms of sentences.
If you're looking for a particular string within
a given area of your document, then
If you use your cursor to select a word string,
phrase, sentence or paragraph and then do your
Find or Find/Replace Word will generally limit
the initial search to the selected area.

With a sentence selected using Edit/Replace
with Wildcards and a search string of

same*drink*.

and using a replace string of
^& plus [Format] Font Red
did do a search similar to what Google's default is.

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"Philos" wrote in message ...
Still loking for help. Boolean search is so common and useful ... wouldn't
the Microsoft programmers have thought of it?
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

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