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How do you search for a file containing specific text within Word.
After switching over to Word 2007, I found that the file search capabilities
are no longer there within Word, at least to my knowledge. You used to be able to go to File, Open, and there was an advanced search mechanism in that dialog box (on the menu bar, I believe) that would enable you to search for a file containing specific words. Does anyone know of a way to do this in Word 2007? It looks like we're limited to using the Windows search feature now. |
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How do you search for a file containing specific text within Word.
You are correct. One imagines that the designers were thinking that most
Office 2007 users would be using Vista. When using Word 2007 in Vista, a mini-version of Windows Explorer is used for the File dialogs. In Vista, there is a Search box in the upper right in each of the File dialogs, making searching far easier than ever before. Unfortunately... if you don't have Vista, then you'll need to use Windows Explorer itself. :-( -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Cindy" wrote in message ... After switching over to Word 2007, I found that the file search capabilities are no longer there within Word, at least to my knowledge. You used to be able to go to File, Open, and there was an advanced search mechanism in that dialog box (on the menu bar, I believe) that would enable you to search for a file containing specific words. Does anyone know of a way to do this in Word 2007? It looks like we're limited to using the Windows search feature now. |
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How do you search for a file containing specific text within W
That's what I suspected. Thanks for the info!
"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: You are correct. One imagines that the designers were thinking that most Office 2007 users would be using Vista. When using Word 2007 in Vista, a mini-version of Windows Explorer is used for the File dialogs. In Vista, there is a Search box in the upper right in each of the File dialogs, making searching far easier than ever before. Unfortunately... if you don't have Vista, then you'll need to use Windows Explorer itself. :-( -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Cindy" wrote in message ... After switching over to Word 2007, I found that the file search capabilities are no longer there within Word, at least to my knowledge. You used to be able to go to File, Open, and there was an advanced search mechanism in that dialog box (on the menu bar, I believe) that would enable you to search for a file containing specific words. Does anyone know of a way to do this in Word 2007? It looks like we're limited to using the Windows search feature now. |
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