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Vista search isn't returning Excel files

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Old 07-02-2007   #1 (permalink)
Martin LaBar
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Vista search isn't returning Excel files

I am using Advanced Search in Windows Vista to find recently created files,
so that I can copy them to other media. I have discovered that searching for
files after, say June 30, does not return Excel files, although it does
return .txt files and .html files. The location I am specifying is my Vista
user name, and the Spreadsheets subfolder is located within that user name
folder.

Thanks for any help.
Old 07-02-2007   #2 (permalink)
Dave
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Re: Vista search isn't returning Excel files

Don't why yours isn't finding any (assuming that you have some that were
modified since then).
I can find some on my computer.

\Users should be on the indexing included locations... is yours?
Start - Control Panel - Indexing options

Do you have the search to show "All"? or "Document"?






"Martin LaBar" <Martin LaBar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:788FD573-4484-4823-A43D-95B234D6461F@microsoft.com...
>I am using Advanced Search in Windows Vista to find recently created files,
> so that I can copy them to other media. I have discovered that searching
> for
> files after, say June 30, does not return Excel files, although it does
> return .txt files and .html files. The location I am specifying is my
> Vista
> user name, and the Spreadsheets subfolder is located within that user name
> folder.
>
> Thanks for any help.


Old 07-02-2007   #3 (permalink)
Martin LaBar
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Re: Vista search isn't returning Excel files



"Dave" wrote:

> Don't why yours isn't finding any (assuming that you have some that were
> modified since then).
> I can find some on my computer.
>
> \Users should be on the indexing included locations... is yours?
> Start - Control Panel - Indexing options
>
> Do you have the search to show "All"? or "Document"?
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "Martin LaBar" <Martin LaBar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:788FD573-4484-4823-A43D-95B234D6461F@microsoft.com...
> >I am using Advanced Search in Windows Vista to find recently created files,
> > so that I can copy them to other media. I have discovered that searching
> > for
> > files after, say June 30, does not return Excel files, although it does
> > return .txt files and .html files. The location I am specifying is my
> > Vista
> > user name, and the Spreadsheets subfolder is located within that user name
> > folder.
> >
> > Thanks for any help.

>
>


Thanks. As far as I can tell, /Users is included, and .xls and similar files
are included in the index. I am searching for All.
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