Searching Multiple Word Docs

[S McGill]

Does anyone know of a resource where I can find out how to search multiple
word docs from a single application... perhaps a VB6 app.

The purpose is to improve our helpdesk and we have many solutions as
separate word docs.

Thanks,
Shannon

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Check the vba FAQ at the Word FAQ site (below) and look for the macro to
replace all instances of something in all files in a given folder. That
could be a starting place.

Otherwise, if you have FrontPage and save your docs as HTML, FP has a very
good site-wide search capability.

Finally, look into the free Google desktop search engine which you could
restrict to a certain folder, I think. This would certainly be the most
powerful.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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