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Old 05-24-2009   #1 (permalink)
yawnmoth


 
 

searching for "A word or phrase in the file"

In Windows XP, you can search by "A word or phrase in the file". How
might one go about doing this in Windows Vista? I hit Ctrl + F, go to
Document, enable Advanced Search, and... there does not appear to be
any comparable option.

Any ideas?

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Old 05-24-2009   #2 (permalink)
Retroman


 
 

Re: searching for "A word or phrase in the file"

On Sun, 24 May 2009 09:12:20 -0700 (PDT), yawnmoth <terra1024@xxxxxx>
wrote:
Quote:

>In Windows XP, you can search by "A word or phrase in the file". How
>might one go about doing this in Windows Vista? I hit Ctrl + F, go to
>Document, enable Advanced Search, and... there does not appear to be
>any comparable option.
>
>Any ideas?
Yawnmoth,

In Windows Search 4, no GUI option is needed, you just type in the word.
If you want to exclude file and folder names (i.e. search by file contents
only), that is easy to do. For example, this query returns only files
whose contents contain the word "dog":

dog -name:dog -kind:folder

Of course, if this is an indexed search, the file types in question must
be designated for content searching.

For more on advanced queries, see:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro.../advquery.mspx

Doug M. in NJ
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