http://www.microsoft.com/windows/des.../advanced.mspx
filename:keyword
gets the file, but dunno about restricting it to a certain folder....
"Leanna" <Leanna@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BAA66A50-72CF-413D-B469-BE77B192C113@microsoft.com...
> Please try again to answer my question. Suppose I want to search for a
> particular document occurring in a particular folder. In XP, we had the
> option to browse for the folder we wanted to look in, and then we typed
> the
> key word to be searched for, and bingo, it brought up any occurrence of
> that
> key word in the title of any document within that particular folder. In
> the
> new Vista search screen, I find no such option. Please help, it's driving
> me
> crazy.
>
>
> "Neil Harley" wrote:
>
>> outtolunch wrote:
>> > I'm not sure if I'm just dense but in XP under Advanced Search it was
>> > easy to
>> > search documents for text even if you didn't know the documents name.
>> > You
>> > could type in *.* or *.doc and then do a search for specific word or
>> > text. I
>> > am unable to see how this is done in Vista. Can someone point to the
>> > solution?
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Start (Orb) / type in the Start Search entry box.
>>
>> If you want to locate specific text within an indexed location type the
>> phrase in commas. If a lot of results are returned just click on the
>> 'Show All Results' and then you can filter by type (Docs, Music etc)
>>
>> If what you're looking for isn't returned and you know for sure that it
>> should be, make sure the location where the file is stored is being
>> indexed.
>>
>> hth
>>