Question on Deep Searching
Need some help :(
Friday, June 2, 2006 by WarOtter | Discussion: Windows Software
I have a bit of a problem here at work. We have roughly 20,000+ MSWord letter templates on our server, and when a batch of them need to be changed for some reason or another, I use Windows Desktop Search (because it has the boolean ability). The problem is right now I am attempting to search for documents that contain a particular conditional statement. Problem is, for whatever reason, when searching within all the word documents, conditionals are not looked at and thus skipped. I have also tried google search and a couple others with no luck.
Does anyone know a method of forcing the search to examine the conditionals or something similar? Keep in mind I cannot actually change any of the data in the files, so converting them is not an option. Or is this simply impossible.
Hope someone can help!
Does anyone know a method of forcing the search to examine the conditionals or something similar? Keep in mind I cannot actually change any of the data in the files, so converting them is not an option. Or is this simply impossible.
Hope someone can help!
WarOtter
Reply #2 Monday, June 5, 2006 10:29 AM
Reply #2 Monday, June 5, 2006 10:29 AM
Essentially we merge all our Word templates with data from an Access database. On certain letters, due to differing state laws(collections laws), we often need to include data on one letter that doesn't need to be on another. We use the conditional {if{mergefield state}="XX""Blahblahblah"} statements which are stored as fields inside the word doc. I am trying to perform a search that will search within those fields to be able to find the "Blahblahblah". Does this help you understand it. I'm not sure how else to word it.
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Reply #1 Friday, June 2, 2006 7:37 PM
You'll have to clarify this for me...
Do you mean a 'conditional statement' within a macro within the document?
Otherwise I'm not clear on how a document can contain a conditional statement.