huge search problem

[Lee Bowman]

I may be doing something wrong, but for the life of me ....

I was looking for a Word document that contained a particular phrase
(just three words), so I opened the search box and typed in those
words. I didn't set any limiting criteria, like limits on the date
saved.

Although there were several docs containing that same three word
phrase, Word didn't fine them.

I then searched 'all documents' for the word 'the', and limited it to
the last one month period. It ignored about 20 Word files, all of
which had that word, and picked 2 Excel fines, which by the way, did
*not* contain the word.

Am I expecting too much? Anyone have a similar?

XP, without Service Pack 2
Office 2000, with Service Pack 2

Lee Bowman

 

[Bob I]

Based on what you said, it's pretty tough to tell how and were you were
searching and the word "the" is a pretty bad pick.

 

[JoAnn Paules - MVP Publisher]

I recently had the same goofy problem but attributed it to using Win98
Windows Explorer's search function.

I'd never seen it before. I've since been advised to download something else
from the 'Net to search for specific words.

Were you also using Windows Explorer?