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Thanks for the tip.
I found this, tried the google search extension, and
gave up after google search tried during a couple of hours
to index all my PC's contents without success !
Maybe google search is usable after all, but it looks
like boarding a 747 to cross the street.
I think simple problems should have simple solutions.
IMHO, OpenOffice should have a "file search" command
with preview.
But why can MS Windows Explorer (or their fine files) search MS Office
files? Because they are both made by MS. Can Explorer find info in Corel
WP documents? No. I just tried to search containing text for a word I
know is in a WP file. Did it find it? No.
To me, this is a limitation of Explorer that I am sure MS wants to keep.
What is needed, is something more application agnostic, like Google
search, or Beagle, as I mentioned earlier.
Hope this helps to understand the situation,
Crystle
At 14:24 18/05/2006, you wrote:
On Sat May 13 2006 09:57, + Bert Cuzeau wrote:
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Hello,
I have a major issue with OpenOffice in my daily use :
I didn't find any way to search for documents (sxw or odt) for
a specific piece of text (string).
While this usually works with MS Word's .doc files directly
from the Windows Explorer, or (better) from within Word itself,
I found no equivalent in OpenOffice.
I find this extremely unfriendly : I have hundreds of commercial
quotations and invoices and locating a specific one is nearly
impossible. A viewer integrated with a file browser would be very
nice, but simply a tool to search for strings inside .sxw or .odt
would be a real pain reliever.
I can't imagine I'm the only one in the world to suffer from this :-)
Did I miss something obvious ?
Thanks in advance for any suggestion,
As you are not subscribed you may not have seen that:
On Sun May 14 2006 08:53, Henrik Sundberg wrote:
You could try Google desktop: http://desktop.google.com/
and the plugin: http://desktop.google.com/plugins/i/indextheopenoffice.html
Please reply to [email protected] only.
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