Word 2007: search within multiple documents

[joema]

Running XP SP2, and Office 2007.

I want to search within several Word documents, then skip to each search
result (within each file).

Is there a way in Word 2007 to do that?

Windows "file and folder search" only shows the documents matching the
search criteria -- it doesn't highlight the search match within each document.

Essentially I'm looking for multi-file search similar to what Adobe Reader
has. You can do "open full reader search", then search within all .pdf
documents in a folder, and skip from one highlighted search match to the next.

If Word 2007 can't do that, can anyone recommend an add-in or other utility
that provides that functionality?

 

[joema]

Update: I never could make Word search within multiple documents. The
find/replace dialog has a button for "find in", where you'd expect to see
"this document", "all documents in this folder", "browse for location", etc.

However it doesn't give those options, is hard-coded to "main document".

My solution was download and install the free product Google Desktop, which
indexes all local files on your computer.
http://desktop.google.com/features.html

It searches through Word files, allows restricting search to a specific
folder, and displays a two-line excerpt of the search match.

 

[Clamorous]

Update: I never could make Word search within multiple documents. The
find/replace dialog has a button for "find in", where you'd expect to see
"this document", "all documents in this folder", "browse for location", etc.

However it doesn't give those options, is hard-coded to "main document".

My solution was download and install the free product Google Desktop, which
indexes all local files on your computer.http://desktop.google.com/features.html

It searches through Word files, allows restricting search to a specific
folder, and displays a two-line excerpt of the search match.

One of the other news groups mentioned AgentRansack for a file-content
search program which is free. You can take a look here:
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/

I don't have any experience with it, so I can't comment as to how well
it will match what you're looking for.