HELP - Window XP cannot search my Lotus 123 files

[Guest]

Bought a new laptop with Windows XP........installed lotus 123 and have all
lotus 123 imported to the new computer.........but the search functions
cannot locate the files when I need to search. It works with Excel
spreadsheet but not Lotus. PLEASE HELP!!!. There was no problems with my
old computer with Window Me.

 

[Neil]

For some bizarre reason XP only searches in registered file types. See
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1206399,00.asp>
This is what you would be interested in.

The Search function relies on an internal filter to find words; file types
that don't have a defined filter won't be searched. If you find that certain
file types don't appear in the search results, you can try assigning the
plain-text filter to those types. To do this, launch Regedit from the Start
menu's Run dialog and navigate to the key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.??? (where .???
is the extension you want searched). If you don't find a subkey named
PersistentHandler, create one. Double-click on the value "(Default)" for
that subkey and set its data to {5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}.
Repeat the procedure for any other file extensions you want included.