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November 12th 09, 03:22 PM
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Can you recommend a good text search utility? (for WindowsXP, esp forOffice2003)
WindowsXP Pro
msOffice 2003 Xara Xtreme Pro MindManager FreeMind ....} all latest versions Hi Can anyone recommend a utility for searching my local WindowsXP PC? I need to do text searching across msOffice2003 files (e.g. Outlook, Excel, Word). (Optionally, I would IDEALLY also like to be able to search files from: Xara Xtreme Pro, Mindjet's MindManager, FreeMind, plus HTML, PDF files... but this is not a deal breaker.) I have tried - WindowXP's search == horrible. I have uninstalled it and use the previous version - which is very slow but more accurate. Fails to do outlook files. - GoogleDesktop == Initially I was impressed, but now keeps failing to spider things. Terrible at handling archivals of emails. - Copernic Desktop (v3.2.1) == Takes literally *days* to spider/re-spider. Clunky & processor hungry. Not good at handling archivals of emails. All I need something as powerful as Google websearch, but that runs across my own PC ! For example exact phrase matching (e.g. by using double quotes around a phrase) For example negative matching - i.e. excluding certain phrases I am becoming increasingly desperate!! - Any thoughts? Ship Shiperton Henethe 
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November 12th 09, 03:32 PM
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Can you recommend a good text search utility? (for WindowsXP,esp for Office2003)
Have you tried Google? That's what we do.
--- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est ship wrote: WindowsXP Pro msOffice 2003 Xara Xtreme Pro MindManager FreeMind ...} all latest versions Hi Can anyone recommend a utility for searching my local WindowsXP PC? I need to do text searching across msOffice2003 files (e.g. Outlook, Excel, Word). (Optionally, I would IDEALLY also like to be able to search files from: Xara Xtreme Pro, Mindjet's MindManager, FreeMind, plus HTML, PDF files... but this is not a deal breaker.) I have tried - WindowXP's search == horrible. I have uninstalled it and use the previous version - which is very slow but more accurate. Fails to do outlook files. - GoogleDesktop == Initially I was impressed, but now keeps failing to spider things. Terrible at handling archivals of emails. - Copernic Desktop (v3.2.1) == Takes literally *days* to spider/re-spider. Clunky & processor hungry. Not good at handling archivals of emails. All I need something as powerful as Google websearch, but that runs across my own PC ! For example exact phrase matching (e.g. by using double quotes around a phrase) For example negative matching - i.e. excluding certain phrases I am becoming increasingly desperate!! - Any thoughts? Ship Shiperton Henethe
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November 12th 09, 03:48 PM
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Can you recommend a good text search utility? (for WindowsXP, esp for Office2003)
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WindowsXP Pro msOffice 2003 Xara Xtreme Pro MindManager FreeMind ...} all latest versions Hi Can anyone recommend a utility for searching my local WindowsXP PC? I need to do text searching across msOffice2003 files (e.g. Outlook, Excel, Word). (Optionally, I would IDEALLY also like to be able to search files from: Xara Xtreme Pro, Mindjet's MindManager, FreeMind, plus HTML, PDF files... but this is not a deal breaker.) I have tried - WindowXP's search == horrible. I have uninstalled it and use the previous version - which is very slow but more accurate. Fails to do outlook files. - GoogleDesktop == Initially I was impressed, but now keeps failing to spider things. Terrible at handling archivals of emails. - Copernic Desktop (v3.2.1) == Takes literally *days* to spider/re-spider. Clunky & processor hungry. Not good at handling archivals of emails. All I need something as powerful as Google websearch, but that runs across my own PC ! For example exact phrase matching (e.g. by using double quotes around a phrase) For example negative matching - i.e. excluding certain phrases I am becoming increasingly desperate!! - Any thoughts? http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/
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November 12th 09, 06:03 PM
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Can you recommend a good text search utility? (for WindowsXP, esp forOffice2003)
Hey, I would recommend you 'Lookeen' (http://www.lookeen.net)! Normally this tool is for Outlook, but if you use Outlook than you can also search in doc or pdf file etc. with this tool! Beside this it isn´t only a Outlook search, you can also search your whole desktop with it! I work with it and I am very satisfied with it...it really searchs everywhere and that fast and reliable too! More you find on their homepage...there is also a testversion! I hope I could help you!  -- Smuthie http://forums.slipstick.com
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November 12th 09, 07:13 PM
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Can you recommend a good text search utility? (for WindowsXP, esp for Office2003)
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ship typed: WindowsXP Pro msOffice 2003 Xara Xtreme Pro MindManager FreeMind ...} all latest versions Hi Can anyone recommend a utility for searching my local WindowsXP PC? I need to do text searching across msOffice2003 files (e.g. Outlook, Excel, Word). (Optionally, I would IDEALLY also like to be able to search files from: Xara Xtreme Pro, Mindjet's MindManager, FreeMind, plus HTML, PDF files... but this is not a deal breaker.) I have tried - WindowXP's search == horrible. I have uninstalled it and use the previous version - which is very slow but more accurate. Fails to do outlook files. - GoogleDesktop == Initially I was impressed, but now keeps failing to spider things. Terrible at handling archivals of emails. - Copernic Desktop (v3.2.1) == Takes literally *days* to spider/re-spider. Clunky & processor hungry. Not good at handling archivals of emails. All I need something as powerful as Google websearch, but that runs across my own PC ! For example exact phrase matching (e.g. by using double quotes around a phrase) For example negative matching - i.e. excluding certain phrases I am becoming increasingly desperate!! - Any thoughts? Ship Shiperton Henethe Try PowerDesk at http://eau.v-com.com/product/PowerDesk_Pro_Home.html . If you wish it'll even replace windows Explorer for you whenever something calls for it. It's accurate, stable at rev7 and my only explorer-like program anymore. I don't know if there still is; there used to be a fully functilnal freebie version avaiable but I don't see it offhand just now. IMO its best use is in being able to put two folders up side by side for viewing and drag n drop but the Find features are excellent. HTH, Twayne`
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November 12th 09, 08:34 PM
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Can you recommend a good text search utility? (for WindowsXP, esp forOffice2003)
FYI, Lookeen replaces the old lookout search utility and does a very good
job. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/ Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: Poll: What version of Outlook do you use? http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=27072 "Smuthie" Smuthie.41jvaa@invalid wrote in message news:Smuthie.41jvaa@invalid... Hey, I would recommend you 'Lookeen' (http://www.lookeen.net)! Normally this tool is for Outlook, but if you use Outlook than you can also search in doc or pdf file etc. with this tool! Beside this it isn´t only a Outlook search, you can also search your whole desktop with it! I work with it and I am very satisfied with it...it really searchs everywhere and that fast and reliable too! More you find on their homepage...there is also a testversion! I hope I could help you! -- Smuthie http://forums.slipstick.com
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November 13th 09, 09:26 AM
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Can you recommend a good text search utility? (for WindowsXP, esp for Office2003)
"Daave" wrote in message ... ship wrote: WindowsXP Pro msOffice 2003 Xara Xtreme Pro MindManager FreeMind ...} all latest versions Hi Can anyone recommend a utility for searching my local WindowsXP PC? I need to do text searching across msOffice2003 files (e.g. Outlook, Excel, Word). (Optionally, I would IDEALLY also like to be able to search files from: Xara Xtreme Pro, Mindjet's MindManager, FreeMind, plus HTML, PDF files... but this is not a deal breaker.) I have tried - WindowXP's search == horrible. I have uninstalled it and use the previous version - which is very slow but more accurate. Fails to do outlook files. - GoogleDesktop == Initially I was impressed, but now keeps failing to spider things. Terrible at handling archivals of emails. - Copernic Desktop (v3.2.1) == Takes literally *days* to spider/re-spider. Clunky & processor hungry. Not good at handling archivals of emails. All I need something as powerful as Google websearch, but that runs across my own PC ! For example exact phrase matching (e.g. by using double quotes around a phrase) For example negative matching - i.e. excluding certain phrases I am becoming increasingly desperate!! - Any thoughts? http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/ Seconded. Always one of the first things I put on a new XP setup.
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November 13th 09, 10:28 AM
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Can you recommend a good text search utility? (for WindowsXP, espfor Office2003)
Er do you mean Google Desktop? If so the answer is yes (see original post) It is bl**dy terrible. Certain emails in outlook it repeatedly fails to spider (despite being completely un-installed and re-installed). And yes I even ran scanpst.exe across the PST files in question. But still no good... Also if I archive from one PST file to another, it utterly fails to notice. Not impressed. :^( Ship On Nov 12, 3:32*pm, Leonard Grey wrote: Have you tried Google? That's what we do. --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est ship wrote: WindowsXP Pro msOffice 2003 Xara Xtreme Pro MindManager FreeMind ...} all latest versions Hi Can anyone recommend a utility for searching my local WindowsXP PC? I need to do text searching across msOffice2003 files (e.g. Outlook, Excel, Word). (Optionally, I would IDEALLY also like to be able to search files from: Xara Xtreme Pro, Mindjet's MindManager, FreeMind, plus HTML, PDF files... but this is not a deal breaker.) I have tried - WindowXP's search == horrible. I have uninstalled it and use the previous version - which is very slow but more accurate. * * * *Fails to do outlook files. - GoogleDesktop == Initially I was impressed, but now keeps failing to spider things. Terrible at handling archivals of emails. - Copernic Desktop (v3.2.1) == Takes literally *days* to spider/re-spider. Clunky & processor hungry. * * * *Not good at handling archivals of emails. All I need something as powerful as Google websearch, but that runs across my own PC ! For example exact phrase matching (e.g. by using double quotes around a phrase) For example negative matching - i.e. excluding certain phrases I am becoming increasingly desperate!! - Any thoughts? Ship ShipertonHenethe
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November 13th 09, 06:16 PM
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On Nov 12, 7:13*pm, "Twayne" wrote:
, ship typed: WindowsXP Pro msOffice 2003 Xara Xtreme Pro MindManager FreeMind ...} all latest versions Hi Can anyone recommend a utility for searching my local WindowsXP PC? I need to do text searching across msOffice2003 files (e.g. Outlook, Excel, Word). (Optionally, I would IDEALLY also like to be able to search files from: Xara Xtreme Pro, Mindjet's MindManager, FreeMind, plus HTML, PDF files... but this is not a deal breaker.) I have tried - WindowXP's search == horrible. I have uninstalled it and use the previous version - which is very slow but more accurate. * * * Fails to do outlook files. - GoogleDesktop == Initially I was impressed, but now keeps failing to spider things. Terrible at handling archivals of emails. - Copernic Desktop (v3.2.1) == Takes literally *days* to spider/re-spider. Clunky & processor hungry. * * * Not good at handling archivals of emails. All I need something as powerful as Google websearch, but that runs across my own PC ! For example exact phrase matching (e.g. by using double quotes around a phrase) For example negative matching - i.e. excluding certain phrases I am becoming increasingly desperate!! - Any thoughts? Ship ShipertonHenethe Try PowerDesk at *http://eau.v-com.com/product/PowerDesk_Pro_Home.html. *If you wish it'll even replace windows Explorer for you whenever something calls for it. It's accurate, stable at rev7 and my only explorer-like program anymore. * *I don't know if there still is; there used to be a fully functilnal freebie version avaiable but I don't see it offhand just now. *IMO its best use is in being able to put two folders up side by side for viewing and drag n drop but the Find features are excellent. HTH, Twayne`- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I have just installed Desktop 7. Although I agree that it looks quite interesting/powerful, it's search is not. I need something FAST i.e. that does actually spider my documents. Ship
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November 13th 09, 06:51 PM
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ship typed: On Nov 12, 7:13 pm, "Twayne" wrote: , ship typed: WindowsXP Pro msOffice 2003 Xara Xtreme Pro MindManager FreeMind ...} all latest versions Hi Can anyone recommend a utility for searching my local WindowsXP PC? I need to do text searching across msOffice2003 files (e.g. Outlook, Excel, Word). (Optionally, I would IDEALLY also like to be able to search files from: Xara Xtreme Pro, Mindjet's MindManager, FreeMind, plus HTML, PDF files... but this is not a deal breaker.) I have tried - WindowXP's search == horrible. I have uninstalled it and use the previous version - which is very slow but more accurate. Fails to do outlook files. - GoogleDesktop == Initially I was impressed, but now keeps failing to spider things. Terrible at handling archivals of emails. - Copernic Desktop (v3.2.1) == Takes literally *days* to spider/re-spider. Clunky & processor hungry. Not good at handling archivals of emails. All I need something as powerful as Google websearch, but that runs across my own PC ! For example exact phrase matching (e.g. by using double quotes around a phrase) For example negative matching - i.e. excluding certain phrases I am becoming increasingly desperate!! - Any thoughts? Ship ShipertonHenethe Try PowerDesk at http://eau.v-com.com/product/PowerDesk_Pro_Home.html. If you wish it'll even replace windows Explorer for you whenever something calls for it. It's accurate, stable at rev7 and my only explorer-like program anymore. I don't know if there still is; there used to be a fully functilnal freebie version avaiable but I don't see it offhand just now. IMO its best use is in being able to put two folders up side by side for viewing and drag n drop but the Find features are excellent. HTH, Twayne`- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I have just installed Desktop 7. Although I agree that it looks quite interesting/powerful, it's search is not. I need something FAST i.e. that does actually spider my documents. Ship Hmm, it should be fast. Are you using the FileFind feature? All of the contexts work too, such as text within the document, date ranges, only certain types of files, etc. etc.. FileFind, BTW is a standalone: You don't have to run PD to use it; just make a shortcut to the executable in the PD folder in program files. The only way I've found to get faster is to drop into the command prompt and use DIR and /s etc. to search. Sorry it's not working out for you; I triedg. HTH, Twayne`
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