I started to use at my work OO Writer and Calc for about 2 months.
Several days ago I faced up with the problem that ODT documents (I do
not remember the extention for the Calc documents) do not support
full-text serch. I will explain. I have 25 or even more documents and
without opening each document and pressing Ctrl+F I need to find a
certain word in these documents. MS Word do not always let us search
inside the documents, but Open Office supports open document format and
I suppose that the full-text search in the OpenOffice documents will be
based on searching in XML or archived files.
Hi allatsar
Assuming you are using Windows, there are quite a few options:
- Google Desktop Search has a plugin for OpenDocument files
- Copernic Desktop Search can search OpenDocument files (you just have to
add the file extensions to the list of programs to search)
- Yahoo Desktop Search (based on the excellent X11 search program) can
search OpenDocument documents
- There is an OpenOffice.org specific search program (called OOSearch)
These days there are lots of other options as well. Google should find
those programs for your easily.
They are all indexed search programs, which means they create a (often
huge) index of which documents contain each word, so that the search times
are very fast.
If you would prefer non-indexed search programs, I'm sure there are a few
of those as well.
Adrian
PS. Most of those programs find Microsoft Office documents as well, not to
mention many other formats.
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