SEARCH only looks for DOC or TXT

[Greg Purvis]

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

[John A]

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"
> 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
>