"Supposed to be" could be argued, but it certainly is the way things *are*. Text insets are treated as black boxes by the Find/Change operation. You can search for them as a type of object, but you cannot search for text strings within those referenced objects from the containing document.
My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder Intel Parsippany, NJ >From: Whites <whitefamily at mac.com> >To: framers at lists.frameusers.com >Subject: Searching in text insets >Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:19:40 -0800 > >Today, from within the main document, I searched on a string in a text >inset and was surprised to find that the FM search function did not find >it. >Am I being obtuse (happens a lot) or is this the way things are supposed >to be? >Any help will be appreciated. > >will white _________________________________________________________________ Visit MSN Holiday Challenge for your chance to win up to $50,000 in Holiday cash from MSN today! http://www.msnholidaychallenge.com/index.aspx?ocid=tagline&locale=en-us