FileSearch to find partial words?

[Ed]

I have the following code in a workbook that does a text search through a
folder of Word documents:

With Application.FileSearch
.NewSearch
.LookIn = strLocation
.SearchSubFolders = False
.TextOrProperty = strSearchFor
.MatchAllWordForms = True
.Filename = strName & "*.doc"
.Execute

The code works fine - except it won't find part of a word. For instance, I
can't use "brak" (as strSearchFor) to find "brake", "brakes", and "braking".
I had hoped the MatchAllWordForms setting would do it, but no such luck.

Note: Mswds_en.lex is installed, but I have no idea if it's registered (as
per MatchAllWordForms Help topic.) How would I check and rectify in need
be?

Ed

 

[Helmut Weber]

Hi Ed,

according to the help .TextOrProperty
allows the use of the wildcards ? and *.

Though I doubt, whether this will help you much.

I'd use an invisible Word-instance
together with Word's wildcard search.

Not perfect, still. :-(


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[Ed]

Hi, Helmut.

Actually, this can be used to solve my issue. The search terms (up to
three) are typed into cells. If I put a drop-down or option button next to
each term, I can allow the user to indicate if this is a complete word
(default), or the beginning, end, or center bit of a word. It might need a
bit more tweaking than that, but it should work out okay.

Thank you!
Ed