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search within a document word 2007

  • 23-04-2012 3:29pm
    #1
    LorraineMcFly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 135 ✭✭


    hi any help be great!

    on search in microsft 2007, if i put * before part of a document name , i get a good search and it pulls up all documents for me with similar names.

    does anybody know if theres a symbol that can be used for searching for a word contained within a document? so say i want to pull up all documents containg the word , roadster for example. is there a symbol i can use before roadster? like *roadstar

    thanx sorry i prob make no snese.


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  • #2
    Aidan_a
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭Aidan_a


    I have windows 7 and if I search the word in the search box (in start menu) all documents containing that word will show up. Out of interest is there anything in particular you want to find or is this just for curiosity's sake?

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  • #3
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    Agent Ransack supports this, or as Aidan suggests Windows Vista/7 has this feature built in

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  • #4
    Torqay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,835 ✭✭✭Torqay


    Windows Content Search works only from left to right. i.e. a wildcard search for road* will find roadster, *ster won't.

    Agent Ransack doesn't have this limitation.


  • #5
    Skerries
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    this is a very good for windows XP as it indexes everything like in Windows 7

    http://www.voidtools.com/
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  • #6
    Torqay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,835 ✭✭✭Torqay


    Skerries wrote: »
    this is a very good for windows XP as it indexes everything like in Windows 7

    http://www.voidtools.com/

    Simply the best... but not relevant here. Everything is not a content search engine. ;)


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  • #7
    Born To Be Mild
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37 ✭Born To Be Mild


    Not 100% sure if it works for Word files but I search the contents of .txt files from command line.

    open cmd
    cd \
    findstr /l /s "roadster" *.* > C:\results.txt

    this will create a file in C:\ called results.txt. It will show the locations / filenames of the files that contain "roadster" along with the containing line.


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