help on searching for a word in a word document

[sammy]

I am running 2003 word and I have 8 or 9 documents open in the same folder
containing say 20 word documents.

I run the find command searching for a word in document but it only reports
the word or phrase found in the documents that I have not opened and not the
8 or 9 where the word or phrase exists also.

Do I need to install a patch and does this happen in 2007 word.

Thanks in advance

Sammy

 

[grammatim]

Did you ask the question correctly? I can't imagine Word searching
documents that are _not_ open.

Also, I haven't found a way to run a single search over several
documents at once!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See How to Find & ReplaceAll on a Batch of Documents in the Same Folder
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/BatchFR.htm
Replace text on a batch of files
http://www.gmayor.com/batch_replace.htm
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/VBA_Find_And_Replace.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Did you ask the question correctly? I can't imagine Word searching
documents that are _not_ open.

Also, I haven't found a way to run a single search over several
documents at once!

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

I am running 2003 word and I have 8 or 9 documents open in the same folder
containing say 20 word documents.

I run the find command searching for a word in document but it only reports
the word or phrase found in the documents that I have not opened and not the
8 or 9 where the word or phrase exists also.

Do I need to install a patch and does this happen in 2007 word.

If you are writing about the Search feature of the Windows Explorer
environment, then I believe that it cannot search in documents that are
opened as they are flagged as "Locked".

I would suggest that you do take the time to write a more detailed post if
you want reliable help.

 

[sammy]

Thanks for the web links

I should have mentioned I was using windows standard explore find short cut
being cntrl F and setting option to search the contents of all files in
directory for a word/string output being a list of files that contain the
string, providing files are currently not open by word or any other
application.