Re: Search attachments from Outlook

You cannot search directly within an attachment's text. You would have to
save the attachments to temporary files in the file system and search them
there or load up the files in the parent applications and search that way.

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Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
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Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
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"Leo v." <Leo v.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6643EFFE-00A7-405F-AC99-168960ECA3C1@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
>
> I am a new to this, but need som help on the following:
>
> We need to search one of our folders regulary looking for keywords (6 pre
> defined keywords) found in the attachmenst of the messages. Theese
> attachments are always word documents or plain .txt files. When the
> keywords
> has been found the message has to be highlighten or drawn to our attention
> in
> any ways.
>
> I receive several hundred mails per day, and need to find thoose few
> containing the keywords in the attachmenst to give them priority.
>
> Hope some of you have some good ideas for me to solve this problem.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
>