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Locating an Existing Document in the "OPEN" Dialogue Box
In Office 2000 (used at work) and Office 2003 (used on my home computer), you
can quickly locate an existing document by first displaying all documents with a certain word in their title. I have just upgraded to Office XP and seem to have lost this functionality. For example, under the 2000 & 2003 versions, you first bring up the "open" dialogue box. Say you want to open a document that you know has the word "review" in it. In the file name box, you type "review." Instantly, every document with the word "review" in it is displayed. You choose the one you want and open it. I can't get this to work in Office XP. If I type the word "review," all documents disappear, including those that have that word as part of the document title. Is there a setting that I'm overlooking? |
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Locating an Existing Document in the "OPEN" Dialogue Box
Susi Carbonneau wrote:
In Office 2000 (used at work) and Office 2003 (used on my home computer), you can quickly locate an existing document by first displaying all documents with a certain word in their title. I have just upgraded to Office XP and seem to have lost this functionality. For example, under the 2000 & 2003 versions, you first bring up the "open" dialogue box. Say you want to open a document that you know has the word "review" in it. In the file name box, you type "review." Instantly, every document with the word "review" in it is displayed. You choose the one you want and open it. I can't get this to work in Office XP. If I type the word "review," all documents disappear, including those that have that word as part of the document title. Is there a setting that I'm overlooking? The functionality changed. Now, to find all file names containing a given text, type an asterisk before and after the text -- in your example, *review* will do it -- and press Enter. If you want only those with the text at the beginning of the name, leave out the first asterisk. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Locating an Existing Document in the "OPEN" Dialogue Box
Wonderful! This is exactly what I needed to know.
"Jay Freedman" wrote: Susi Carbonneau wrote: In Office 2000 (used at work) and Office 2003 (used on my home computer), you can quickly locate an existing document by first displaying all documents with a certain word in their title. I have just upgraded to Office XP and seem to have lost this functionality. For example, under the 2000 & 2003 versions, you first bring up the "open" dialogue box. Say you want to open a document that you know has the word "review" in it. In the file name box, you type "review." Instantly, every document with the word "review" in it is displayed. You choose the one you want and open it. I can't get this to work in Office XP. If I type the word "review," all documents disappear, including those that have that word as part of the document title. Is there a setting that I'm overlooking? The functionality changed. Now, to find all file names containing a given text, type an asterisk before and after the text -- in your example, *review* will do it -- and press Enter. If you want only those with the text at the beginning of the name, leave out the first asterisk. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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