Vista Tutorial - Text Search in Vista

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?

Hello,
To search all indexed locations for the document files, open Start -> Search, search for *.doc (slow) or ext:doc (fast). You can
also type in some words from the documents.
Thanks,
Ilia

"outtolunch" <u35433@uwe> wrote in message news:74637d72336ae@uwe...
> 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?
>
>

Hi, I have a similar problem: In XP i could just type the search word, and it
came up with a list of files having that word in the title. But in Vista, I
type the word and before I'm done typing it is bringing up all kinds of junk
that has no relationship at all with the word I typed. PLEASE HELP! (This
added to multiple other outrages I am suffering from this worthless Vista OS
is ensuring that as soon as possible I will be stripping this trash off of my
computer and reinstalling good ol' XP... Microsoft should apologize by giving
us a free download to "upgrade" back to XP!)

"Ilia Sacson [MS]" wrote:

> Hello,
> To search all indexed locations for the document files, open Start -> Search, search for *.doc (slow) or ext:doc (fast). You can
> also type in some words from the documents.
> Thanks,
> Ilia
>
> "outtolunch" <u35433@uwe> wrote in message news:74637d72336ae@uwe...
> > 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?
> >
> >
>
>

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

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
>

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
>>

I am with you Leanna - I have followed all of Vista's search demos & it
certainly is not able to do any kind of "phrase" searching at all even with
"commas" - whereas XP just did it with no complication at all - & although it
looks very pretty, I am 100% frustrated with Vista - Windows Calendar did not
work at all & the hotfix patch that was emailed to me - crashed the operating
system on restart & I had to get a new key fr Microsoft to restart it which
took me hours. BTW, at least the Calendar works now!

"Leanna" wrote:

> Hi, I have a similar problem: In XP i could just type the search word, and it
> came up with a list of files having that word in the title. But in Vista, I
> type the word and before I'm done typing it is bringing up all kinds of junk
> that has no relationship at all with the word I typed. PLEASE HELP! (This
> added to multiple other outrages I am suffering from this worthless Vista OS
> is ensuring that as soon as possible I will be stripping this trash off of my
> computer and reinstalling good ol' XP... Microsoft should apologize by giving
> us a free download to "upgrade" back to XP!)
>
> "Ilia Sacson [MS]" wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > To search all indexed locations for the document files, open Start -> Search, search for *.doc (slow) or ext:doc (fast). You can
> > also type in some words from the documents.
> > Thanks,
> > Ilia
> >
> > "outtolunch" <u35433@uwe> wrote in message news:74637d72336ae@uwe...
> > > 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?
> > >
> > >
> >
> >

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:34:32 -0400, Dave wrote:

> but dunno about restricting it to a certain folder....

Right click any folder and Search is on the context menu. Selecting it will
limit the search to that same folder.

--
Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User

As someone on the thread mentionned, by default Vista search searches both
the filename and contents of the file.

If you just want to search for the filename, type filename: before your
search word.

If you want to search for a phrase then enclose it in double-quotes.

If you want to limit the search to a specific directory then probably
easiest is to browse to that directory and use the search box in that
Explorer window, which will limit the search to just the directory you are
in.

"Pru Joy" <Pru Joy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2DD7A689-E3A8-4843-A50B-019559C93FC3@microsoft.com...
>I am with you Leanna - I have followed all of Vista's search demos & it
> certainly is not able to do any kind of "phrase" searching at all even
> with
> "commas" - whereas XP just did it with no complication at all - & although
> it
> looks very pretty, I am 100% frustrated with Vista - Windows Calendar did
> not
> work at all & the hotfix patch that was emailed to me - crashed the
> operating
> system on restart & I had to get a new key fr Microsoft to restart it
> which
> took me hours. BTW, at least the Calendar works now!
>
> "Leanna" wrote:
>
>> Hi, I have a similar problem: In XP i could just type the search word,
>> and it
>> came up with a list of files having that word in the title. But in Vista,
>> I
>> type the word and before I'm done typing it is bringing up all kinds of
>> junk
>> that has no relationship at all with the word I typed. PLEASE HELP!
>> (This
>> added to multiple other outrages I am suffering from this worthless Vista
>> OS
>> is ensuring that as soon as possible I will be stripping this trash off
>> of my
>> computer and reinstalling good ol' XP... Microsoft should apologize by
>> giving
>> us a free download to "upgrade" back to XP!)
>>
>> "Ilia Sacson [MS]" wrote:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> > To search all indexed locations for the document files, open Start ->
>> > Search, search for *.doc (slow) or ext:doc (fast). You can
>> > also type in some words from the documents.
>> > Thanks,
>> > Ilia
>> >
>> > "outtolunch" <u35433@uwe> wrote in message news:74637d72336ae@uwe...
>> > > 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?
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>> >

Hi, Sharon.

Thanks for that tip! I didn't know that. ;<)

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail beta in Vista Ultimate x64)

"Sharon F" <sharonfDEL@ETEmvps.org> wrote in message
news:e1hQgDNvHHA.784@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:34:32 -0400, Dave wrote:
>
>> but dunno about restricting it to a certain folder....
>
> Right click any folder and Search is on the context menu. Selecting it
> will
> limit the search to that same folder.
>
> --
> Sharon F
> MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User