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Can you recommend a good text search utility? (for WindowsXP, esp forOffice2003)



 
 
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Old November 12th 09, 04:22 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain,microsoft.public.outlook,microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
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Default Can you recommend a good text search utility? (for WindowsXP, esp forOffice2003)

WindowsXP Pro
msOffice 2003
Xara Xtreme Pro
MindManager
FreeMind
....} all latest versions


Hi

Can anyone recommend a utility for searching my local WindowsXP PC?

I need to do text searching across msOffice2003 files (e.g. Outlook,
Excel, Word).

(Optionally, I would IDEALLY also like to be able to search files
from: Xara Xtreme Pro, Mindjet's MindManager, FreeMind, plus HTML, PDF
files... but this is not a deal breaker.)

I have tried
- WindowXP's search
== horrible. I have uninstalled it and use the previous version -
which is very slow but more accurate.
Fails to do outlook files.

- GoogleDesktop
== Initially I was impressed, but now keeps failing to spider things.
Terrible at handling archivals of emails.

- Copernic Desktop (v3.2.1)
== Takes literally *days* to spider/re-spider. Clunky & processor
hungry.
Not good at handling archivals of emails.

All I need something as powerful as Google websearch, but that runs
across my own PC !

For example exact phrase matching (e.g. by using double quotes around
a phrase)
For example negative matching - i.e. excluding certain phrases

I am becoming increasingly desperate!!

- Any thoughts?


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