SEARCHING FOR WORD DOCUMENT

[halboyr]

Is there a way to search for a keyword in My Documents ... I want to search
all my word documents, no matter where they are located, based on a keyword
in the title.

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

So long as you're looking for a keyword that's in the _name of a
document file_ (as opposed to the title of the work contained in the
document), the Windows Search box is just what you need. One way to
get at it is Start > Search, I think (haven't been in Windows XP for a
while, and in Vista the search box pops up pretty much everywhere).

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can use Windows search to search the contents of files as well. And of
course you can limit the search to specific folders and by date and/or file
type.

It's unfortunate that there's no longer any convenient way to search in file
Properties (though that was always kind of hit-or-miss). I say this knowing
that you *can* specify file properties in Word's search, but I find the work
required to specify *where* to search in that dialog limits its usefulness.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

So long as you're looking for a keyword that's in the _name of a
document file_ (as opposed to the title of the work contained in the
document), the Windows Search box is just what you need. One way to
get at it is Start > Search, I think (haven't been in Windows XP for a
while, and in Vista the search box pops up pretty much everywhere).