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Message: [QUOTE="John McGhie, post: 6847236"] The Mac OS Find function is very good, but you need to know that not everything in a Word document is text. Some of it (particularly in headers, footers, graphics etc...) is binary information that cannot be searched. In WordPerfect, the content of the file was tagged ASCII. In Word, it's not tagged, there are no codes embedded, and the text is compressed Unicode. The OS Index tool is very good, but it helps to read the Mac Help Topic "Indexing your files" and its subtopics, and has been mentioned, give it up to an hour to index your drive the first time (basically, trigger "Index Now" and let the system run for an hour or two). Yes, to do Find/Replace in Word, the file must be open in Word. You can make a macro in Word that will process an entire folder or multiple folders of files if you wish. It will handle an unlimited number of files, but you need to know a little VBA or AppleScript coding to get it to work. Get back to us if you need such a macro. Cheers -- Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie <john@mcghie.name> Consultant Technical Writer Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410 [/QUOTE]