Can this be done?

[Don Perotto]

I have had a request to take 7 years (4 meetings per year)
of meeting minutes and find a way to query on a person's
name or the topic and develop a report of all that was
said with a corresponding date. I don't think we want to
reload the informaiton into an Access database unless we
have to Just wondering if there is a way to do searches
in Word? Or what would have to be done to a document to
be able to do this, or whether you can link the documents
for a search? Or is there a special package that might do
this?

Thanks.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Hi Don,

You could use a modification of the method given in the article "How to Find
& ReplaceAll on a Batch of Documents in the Same Folder" at:

http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MacrosVBA/BatchFR.htm

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Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP