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| | Restore "Find exact phrase" search feature In Windows XP, I often used the advanced search features for find an exact phrase in all of the doucments on one of my CD-ROMs. This allowed a quick search of many Word documents, pdf documents, and HTML documents, searching for a phrase like "Norwegian bachelor farmer". Now the Vista system does not find an exact phrase -- the search will find documents containing Norwegian, bachelor, and farmer, in any order, throughout the entire document, but not the exact phrase. Augh! Very frustrating. I hate to lose a useful feature. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com...ile_management |
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| | Re: Restore "Find exact phrase" search feature Have you looked at this? http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/wi...echniques.aspx "FrustratedVistaUser" <FrustratedVistaUser@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:60F55A63-0704-467A-89AB-B95B0430C079@microsoft.com... > In Windows XP, I often used the advanced search features for find an exact > phrase in all of the doucments on one of my CD-ROMs. This allowed a quick > search of many Word documents, pdf documents, and HTML documents, > searching > for a phrase like "Norwegian bachelor farmer". Now the Vista system does > not > find an exact phrase -- the search will find documents containing > Norwegian, > bachelor, and farmer, in any order, throughout the entire document, but > not > the exact phrase. Augh! Very frustrating. I hate to lose a useful > feature. > > ---------------- > This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the > suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I > Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow > this > link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then > click "I Agree" in the message pane. > > http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com...ile_management |
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| | Re: Restore "Find exact phrase" search feature FrustratedVistaUser wrote: > In Windows XP, I often used the advanced search features for find an exact > phrase in all of the doucments on one of my CD-ROMs. This allowed a quick > search of many Word documents, pdf documents, and HTML documents, searching > for a phrase like "Norwegian bachelor farmer". Now the Vista system does not > find an exact phrase -- the search will find documents containing Norwegian, > bachelor, and farmer, in any order, throughout the entire document, but not > the exact phrase. Augh! Very frustrating. I hate to lose a useful feature. > > ---------------- > This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the > suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I > Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this > link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then > click "I Agree" in the message pane. > > http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com...ile_management In the 'Start Search' entry box enter your search criteria in quotes (at least it works for me to only find the correct documents and not thousands). On my system "Norwegian bachelor farmer" will not return the same results as Norwegian bachelor farmer -- The first thing is to ensure PEBCAK doesn't apply |
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