Rob, I think Michael meant for you to try the 'Search by Property' feature in Word's Open dialog. It's on the Advanced tab--you can specify a set of rules for what documents to display. Not sure if this is what you're after, but it's worth a look. Regards --- Stuart Burnfield Information Developer Australian Programming Centre austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 09/08/2004 10:07:05 AM: > > Are you aware that the Word File > Open (Ctrl+O) dialog enables you > > to view MS Office files by their properties? > > No I wasn't aware, and it will come in useful in the future, but my end > result is to have a doc listing all the word docs in the directory (tree), > so it would be labour intensive to use this. ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************