Hi Tom....I too could use such a search feature. I have Win 98 se, but when
I got to start, find, file or folders, I dont have anything that says "text
containing".
would this be part of an update or something?
Alice
At 3/6/03 03:54 PM, you wrote:
>For windows XP and win2000, its start, search, file or folders, text
>containing.
>For win98 / me its start, find, file or folders, text containing.
>
>Be sure to specify a starting folder in the 'Look in' box, by using the
>'browse' item (last item in the 'Look in' list for win2000) or 'browse'
>button (w98) to explore my computer and pick a folder. This is suggested
>because the search (on my pc) is extremely slow, taking 3 minutes or more to
>look through 1000 files for a particular word or phrase (although my files
>are not small).
>
>I have used commercial programs that were very fast by comparison, but now I
>only use the free search that comes with windows.
>Tom Turak
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Freeman Mendell [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 12:09 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: [PCSOFT] Document Search non-Internet
>
>
>I have electronic minutes of meetings that go back several years. There
>are many documents. Can anyone recommend a way to search for particular
>words or phrases besides making them into one document and using Word's
>search capability?
>
>Thanks
>
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