Office 2007, searching all files in a folder for specific text

[Richard - RAB]

I am using the Trial and Student version of Office 2007.

What I miss strongly from the previous Windows/Word environment is the
ability to get a list of all files in a folder containing a specific text.

Am I missing something that is there and which I can't find in the help?

Or is there another way for finding out which files might be useful - or
contain a specific error?

Or is there a facility in a higher level of office?

I am seriously considering purchasing Office Standard

 

[Gordon]

I am using the Trial and Student version of Office 2007.

What I miss strongly from the previous Windows/Word environment is the
ability to get a list of all files in a folder containing a specific text.

Am I missing something that is there and which I can't find in the help?

Or is there another way for finding out which files might be useful - or
contain a specific error?

Or is there a facility in a higher level of office?

I am seriously considering purchasing Office Standard

Surely that's a WINDOWS function, not an Office function? What version of
Windows are you using?

 

[Richard - RAB]

Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002 SP2 and corrections.

I had not realised that the feature was a Windows one, not a Word one.

But I do not see how to get to it from Office 2007 and I have no entry to
Windows that I know of.

 

[Gordon]

Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002 SP2 and corrections.

I had not realised that the feature was a Windows one, not a Word one.

But I do not see how to get to it from Office 2007 and I have no entry to
Windows that I know of.

I don't understand what you mean by "I do not see how to get to it from
Office 2007 ". How did you "get to it" in previous Office versions?

 

[Richard - RAB]

Thankyou for your help so far.

Up till the time that iI nstalled Office 2007 I used no office and went
directly into Word (Winword or Word 97).

In that the OPEN facility leads to the choice of
a) all members of the folder
b) a list of all members with a specific text in the name
c) a list of all members with a specific text string in the body of the
member (not always fault free)

It is this last facility I find I need more than I had imagined.

Trying to go to Word via
Start/Alle Programme/Microsoft Office/Microsoft Word (yes it is on offer)
gets me an error response to the effect that the registry is damaged and
that I should run Windows set up program.
That I have not done - coward.

 

[Richard - RAB]

Should have included that the Word97 came with MSOffice 97 Pro.
and I never used the office always directly to Word.

 

[Gordon]

Thankyou for your help so far.

Up till the time that iI nstalled Office 2007 I used no office and went
directly into Word (Winword or Word 97).

In that the OPEN facility leads to the choice of
a) all members of the folder
b) a list of all members with a specific text in the name
c) a list of all members with a specific text string in the body of the
member (not always fault free)

It is this last facility I find I need more than I had imagined.

Well I have to say that in all my years of Using Office from Office 95 right
up to Office 2007 which I am now using (and Word IS part of Office) I have
NEVER seen that function....

 

[Gordon]

Thankyou for your help so far.

Up till the time that iI nstalled Office 2007 I used no office and went
directly into Word (Winword or Word 97).

In that the OPEN facility leads to the choice of
a) all members of the folder
b) a list of all members with a specific text in the name
c) a list of all members with a specific text string in the body of the
member (not always fault free)

It is this last facility I find I need more than I had imagined.

I at last see where you get that from. It's NOT automatically displayed - at
least not in Office 2003. You get to it by doing Open-Tools-Advanced.
In Office 2007 if you add the "Open File" icon to the QAT, click on that,
there is a Search field at the top of the dialog box - which is actually far
more visible than the old way of doing it...

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Richard,

Several Microsoft features that Office had worked on, changed, improved on over first hosted were returned to the responsible
product teams with Office 2007. Among those were dictation and file search.

You can use Start=>Search in Windows XP for example to search in Word documents, and there is the downloadable MS Desktop search (if
you prefer).

The File=>Find feature from prior versions of Word is no longer in Word 2007. You can still use a macro to search and replace in
files in bulk, for example: http://word.mvps.org/faqs/macrosvba/BatchFR.htm

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I am using the Trial and Student version of Office 2007.

What I miss strongly from the previous Windows/Word environment is the
ability to get a list of all files in a folder containing a specific text.

Am I missing something that is there and which I can't find in the help?

Or is there another way for finding out which files might be useful - or
contain a specific error?

Or is there a facility in a higher level of office?

I am seriously considering purchasing Office Standard


--
Richard A. Bowen >>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Richard - RAB]

Thankyou Gordon and Bob Buckland

I have been working on making my own MACRO to do the job, but may have
mucked up a Word/Office setting and I will come to that below as I can not
see where.

You say:

In Office 2007 if you add the "Open File" icon to the QAT, click on that,
there is a Search field at the top of the dialog box - which is actually far
more visible than the old way of doing it...

OK, done that so the QAT is beginning to look useful.

But on open I do not find a Search field - have I the wrong version of
Office or am I blind? Please.

Then to the annoying problem - on starting Office 2007 I get

"The global template, NORMAL.DOTM is already open as an add in programme"

Related to this is that if I ask to open a file that has a number of buried
images from say the E-mail handler I get even more messages finishing up with
the one above.

So eliminate that one and then see if all is well.

Where should I look to tell you what settings there are?

Please