Re: searching old Microsoft word files for text string
Thanks for suggestion. My recollection is that I have tried Ransack in
the past, but took it off my machine because of an incompatibility
problem. Another person suggested the windows FindStr utility. I expect
it is much much much slower, but unlike Ransack, it does not use
computer resources when it is not needed. Given my infrequent need to
search old files, I'm going to try it first.
3c273 wrote:
> There is a freeware program called Agent Ransack that will do what you want.
> Google it.
> Louis
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> "windsurferLA" <ps144nyc@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> Every once in a while I need to retrieve information that I know exists
>> somewhere on the hard drive of my machine in an old Microsoft Word2.0
>> file. My tests seem to indicate that both with WinXP/SR2 and Copernic
>> search functions no longer find text strings within the old Word2.0
>> files. How might I identify a file containing the desired text string?
>> Speed is not an issue, as I can let the machine search all night long.
>>
>> Windsurfer LA
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