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| | 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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| | 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? 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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