If you go to start/find/files or folders, you can tell windows what to
search for, including files containing certain text. On the first tab- Name
& Location; you can leave the first field blank, and fill in the next field
with the text you are looking for.. for example if you were looking for
files that included the keyword "modem" you would put modem in the
[Containing Text] field.  Put  the path in the [Look In] field. To narrow
the search further, you can choose the date tab, and enter dates of files
modified between certain dates. You can then go to the advanced tab and
select the types of files you wish to search, such as text,applications,
compressed folders, etc.. (there is a Long list of file types to search)
Hope this Helps,
Marlene
-----Original Message-----


|I am searching for a program that will let me find information from all my
txt
|files
|in a perticular directory.  For example, I keep all the post from pcsoft in
a
|root
|directory which is alot of individual files.  How do you search a directory
|like this without a program for the job?  If I was wanting to find all info
|about a keyword from this directory do I need a program or is there
something
|I don't know already on my
|Windows95a that can do this?
|TIA
|
|Windon Prince
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