Search for .docx

[Howard Brazee]

I don't often do a Windows search for documents, as it wants to search
my whole computer instead of allowing me to limit the search.

But I do run some batch jobs copying documents from place to place for
backups. So when I saved a document as .docx, I wanted to look for
all versions of this document everywhere. I opened up XP's search,
selected find document, and gave it the name of the document.

It found the .doc files, but not the .docx file.

Is there a way for me to tell Windows that .docx files are documents?


--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison

 

[DL]

In Windows search you select file name, eg *.docx then select the Folder

 

[Shenan Stanley]

In Windows search you select file name, eg *.docx then select the
Folder

or *.doc*

 

[Howard Brazee]

or *.doc*

That's what I usually do, and it has the advantage of searching where
I tell it to. (which is why I normally skip that option)

I'm puzzled about the purpose of the option to search for documents.
Not only does it not give me an option of searching something smaller
than my computer, but it doesn't recognize .docx as documents.

I'm inferring that there isn't some setting I can set to make it
smarter.

I can see this option being useful if I want to search all
spreadsheets, Word documents, .TXT documents, Word Perfect documents,
e-mails, but exclude most everything else. But it doesn't work if
I can't update to a new document type.

I don't have a fast enough computer (this is at work), to live with
the indexing of the fast search, so searching the whole drive is way
too slow anyway. But I figured document search would have enough
flexibility to be useful.

I guess not.

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison

 

[Shenan Stanley]

That's what I usually do, and it has the advantage of searching
where I tell it to. (which is why I normally skip that option)

I'm puzzled about the purpose of the option to search for documents.
Not only does it not give me an option of searching something
smaller than my computer, but it doesn't recognize .docx as
documents.

I'm inferring that there isn't some setting I can set to make it
smarter.

I can see this option being useful if I want to search all
spreadsheets, Word documents, .TXT documents, Word Perfect
documents, e-mails, but exclude most everything else. But it
doesn't work if I can't update to a new document type.

I don't have a fast enough computer (this is at work), to live with
the indexing of the fast search, so searching the whole drive is way
too slow anyway. But I figured document search would have enough
flexibility to be useful.

I guess not.

Could just be you are using an OS put out at the end of 2001 to look for
documents that did not exist until the end of 2006. ;-)

 

[Bert Hyman]

In "Shenan Stanley"

Could just be you are using an OS put out at the end of 2001 to look
for documents that did not exist until the end of 2006. ;-)

Oh, I do hope that smiley means you really meant that as a joke.

BTW, I have no problem finding .docx files on my machine, using the
search capabilities of the antiquated XP OS.

 

[Howard Brazee]

BTW, I have no problem finding .docx files on my machine, using the
search capabilities of the antiquated XP OS.

Using the "search documents" feature?

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison

 

[Bert Hyman]

In Howard Brazee

Using the "search documents" feature?

Using the "Search" function of Windows Explorer.

 

[Howard Brazee]

Using the "Search" function of Windows Explorer.

Sure. But the "search documents" function seems designed to search
through a bunch of different document types at once. (including
word documents & spreadsheets, but not photos).

Except it appears to me to be crippled.

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison

 

[3c273]

According to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490840.aspx ,
"Search Companion uses XML files to define both the user interface and some
functional parameters of its tasks (for example, what list of file
extensions constitutes the "Music" category of files)."
A quick search found 2 files located in the c:\windows\srchasst\mui\0409
folder called "lcladvd.xml" and "lcldocs.xml". I don't use the search
companion so I can't test it, but I bet if you modified these 2 files (or,
I'm guessing the one that looks like "local docs"), you could get the
results you are looking for. Please backup first as I have no idea if this
will work or screw anything up. It is no more than an educated guess.
Louis

 

[Howard Brazee]

According to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490840.aspx ,
"Search Companion uses XML files to define both the user interface and some
functional parameters of its tasks (for example, what list of file
extensions constitutes the "Music" category of files)."
A quick search found 2 files located in the c:\windows\srchasst\mui\0409
folder called "lcladvd.xml" and "lcldocs.xml". I don't use the search
companion so I can't test it, but I bet if you modified these 2 files (or,
I'm guessing the one that looks like "local docs"), you could get the
results you are looking for. Please backup first as I have no idea if this
will work or screw anything up. It is no more than an educated guess.
Louis

Those look promising. I'm about ready to leave on a 4-day weekend
vacation, I'll try them out next week.

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison