atw: Re: Windows 7 search
- From: Howard Silcock <howard.silcock@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:55:21 +1000
Thank you very much for that suggestion, Robert. I can't see anywhere in
all the documentation that I've been ploughing through even that you can
filter by 'type', let alone that one possible type is 'template'. That
could be useful.
Howard
On 16 April 2012 14:24, Robert Levy <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I don’t know whether someone already mentioned this, but if you click in
> the search window after you’ve searched, you get filter options.****
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> When I used the filter for type, I then chose Word template, and that
> narrowed it down.****
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> rwl****
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> *From:* austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Howard Silcock
> *Sent:* Monday, 16 April 2012 12:20 PM
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> *To:* austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* atw: Windows 7 search****
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> I have just discovered the joys of searching for files in Windows 7. ****
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> I was trying to find my *Normal.dotm* template. (I think the system
> administrators have deleted it again. Luckily I've learnt not to store
> important stuff there now.) I selected *Computer* in the
> Windows Explorer window and typed *Normal.dotm* in the Search pane. And,
> my God, it displayed a huge list of documents, none of them called anything
> like Normal.dotm! Oh I see, it must have been finding all documents *based
> *on the template. Don't you love it when the system designers decide for
> you what you *really *meant when you typed your search term?****
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> ****
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> It reminded me of a search for a book in the public library catalogue. The
> book's title was just 'Wild', and I couldn't remember the author's name, so
> I selected *Search By Title*, then typed *Wild*. It returned pages and
> pages of books, many of which didn't even have the word 'wild' in the
> title! Apparently it decided that a Search By Title didn't really mean that
> and it searched in all sorts of other fields as well - hence the huge list.
> I found the book I wanted on the sixth page. ****
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> ****
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> Back to Windows 7. I did some research and discovered that there's an
> 'Advanced Query Syntax' that you can use to tell Windows what you really *
> did* mean. It's a very complex system and it's very hard to find any
> documentation. (Of course, the help file for the system is useless.) I
> eventually came up with a 9-page document describing the syntax. Definitely
> not for the faint-hearted. I think I probably should have type *
> System.FileName:="Normal.dotm"* into the Search box. Well, of course!
> Silly me!****
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> Howard****
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