SEARCH only looks for DOC or TXT

Hi

"Search" skips over a lot of files. I have some non-MSWord files, for
instance, which have been renamed with the .DOC extension but haven't
individually been re-saved as MSWord DOC files as yet, and XP's SEARCH won't
read them even though I have "All Files And Folders" set.

Does anyone know of a special MS utility that I can download, or a special
way of configuring XP's Search, which will allow for finding text in any
type of text based document?

Thanks
Greg

You may be confusing Search by changing file extensions.

You could consider downloading & installing Notetab light from
http://www.notetab.com/ then use the Search / Search disk function,
which ignores file extensions.

John Allen

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:10:06 -0500, "Greg Purvis"
<safehausNOSPAM@webhart.net> wrote:

>Hi
>
>"Search" skips over a lot of files. I have some non-MSWord files, for
>instance, which have been renamed with the .DOC extension but haven't
>individually been re-saved as MSWord DOC files as yet, and XP's SEARCH won't
>read them even though I have "All Files And Folders" set.
>
>Does anyone know of a special MS utility that I can download, or a special
>way of configuring XP's Search, which will allow for finding text in any
>type of text based document?
>
>Thanks
>Greg
>

That works, and thank you very much for the help.

Greg


"John A" <not@available.com> wrote in message
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> You may be confusing Search by changing file extensions.
>
> You could consider downloading & installing Notetab light from
> http://www.notetab.com/ then use the Search / Search disk function,
> which ignores file extensions.
>
> John Allen
>
> On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:10:06 -0500, "Greg Purvis"
> <safehausNOSPAM@webhart.net> wrote:
>

special

>