Open up the index.htm from your Oracle 11g docs in your favorite HTML/text editor and comment out these lines near the top: <!--<div class="simple_search_form_container" style="margin-bottom: 5px;"> <div> <form class="simple_search_form" action="http://www.oracle.com/pls/db111/search"; method="get"><input type="hidden" name="remark" value="quick_search" /> <span><input type="text" id="s_word" name="word" value="" class="search_field" /></span> <span class="text"><label for="s_word"><span style=" display: none;">Search:</span></label> <input type="submit" value="Search" class="text" /></span></form> </div> <div class="shortcut_links"><a href="http://www.oracle.com/pls/db111/ranked?advanced=1"; target="_top">Advanced Search</a> • <a href="nav/portal_3.htm" target="_top">Master Book List</a> • <a href="mix.111/b14387/toc.htm" target="_top">Master Index</a> • <a href="mix.111/b14388/toc.htm" target="_top">Master Glossary</a> • <a href="server.111/b28278/toc.htm" target="_top">Error Messages</a></div> </div> --> That'll get rid of the search. Then you can use the sometimes-working Windows file search or grep on your local repository. At a former job, I used a local install of the OracleSearch crawler to do it and it worked fairly well. I thought that an old version of the docs (8i or 9i?) used to do the search locally via Java or JS, but I'm not 100% on that. The offsite replacement works better, but some note on the page that the search is not local should exist, IMHO. Rich > How do you do that then? I have the 11g docs on my local machine downloaded > from otn but the serach button still tries to search an oracle.com site. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l