Searching into Wordperfect files in XP

[Guest]

I have a user who is unable to search into a group of Wordperfect files. She
wants to identify all the files containing a certain word or group of words.
She is using the Windows Explorer search feature to locate "A word or phrase
in the file" but the search returns nothing despite the word being in several
of the files in the folder.

My guess is that Explorer can't interpret the WordPerfect (v. 6 I believe)
file format.

Is there a converter I can install to make this work?

 

[Rock]

I have a user who is unable to search into a group of Wordperfect files. She
wants to identify all the files containing a certain word or group of words.
She is using the Windows Explorer search feature to locate "A word or phrase
in the file" but the search returns nothing despite the word being in several
of the files in the folder.

My guess is that Explorer can't interpret the WordPerfect (v. 6 I believe)
file format.

Is there a converter I can install to make this work?

XP's search only looks in files with certain registered file extensions.
See this article:
Using the "A word or phrase in the file" search criterion may not work
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309173/EN-US/

Another option is to use Agent Ransack, a free and good search tool:
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/