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Can't search Word 2007 files in Windows Explorer

 
 
Butterfly Bill
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      27th Dec 2007
When I try searching all the Word 2007 .docx documents in Windows
Explorer by asking for a word in the document, I get no matches for
docs I know the word is in. When there are Word 2002 .doc documents or
HTML files in the same folder that have it, they do come up when I
search for the word. Is there some way out of this without going back
and converting a bunch of 2007 files back into 2002 files? (I think
this might have something to do with Unicode vs. ASCII.)
 
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3c273
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      27th Dec 2007
Google for this string:
"filterfileswithunknownextensions"
Louis

"Butterfly Bill" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> When I try searching all the Word 2007 .docx documents in Windows
> Explorer by asking for a word in the document, I get no matches for
> docs I know the word is in. When there are Word 2002 .doc documents or
> HTML files in the same folder that have it, they do come up when I
> search for the word. Is there some way out of this without going back
> and converting a bunch of 2007 files back into 2002 files? (I think
> this might have something to do with Unicode vs. ASCII.)



 
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Butterfly Bill
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      28th Dec 2007
I ran REGEDIT,

and added FilterFiles With Unknown Extensions - REG_DWORD - 0x0000000
(1),

And went Exit and rebooted,

and it still doesn't work.

(My searches were successful in .xlsm and .xlsx files even before I
did this. I don't have this problem with Excel 2007.)

3c273 wrote:
> Google for this string:
> "filterfileswithunknownextensions"
> Louis
>
> "Butterfly Bill" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:a92373d2-4faa-4cda-a4ae-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > When I try searching all the Word 2007 .docx documents in Windows
> > Explorer by asking for a word in the document, I get no matches for
> > docs I know the word is in. When there are Word 2002 .doc documents or
> > HTML files in the same folder that have it, they do come up when I
> > search for the word. Is there some way out of this without going back
> > and converting a bunch of 2007 files back into 2002 files? (I think
> > this might have something to do with Unicode vs. ASCII.)

 
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