"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
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| EML files are text files. You can use the Windows Search function on
| them.
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| In the Search function you can search for files named
| *.EML
| and supply the words to search on.
|
| You can right click on the folder to select the Search function.
|
| If the folder only contains EML files you skip the files named field.
| If there are other kinds of files, supplying the file name field speeds
| the search.
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| Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
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| "Bud" wrote in message
| news:SPHig.28725$QP4.6069@fed1read12...
| Looking for a way, similar to "Find" (Ctrl./F), that will locate words
| within an .eml message. Have several folders on the desktop where I
| store
| ("save-as") .eml messages, that I edit now and then. The difficulty is
| locating a particular paragraph out of fifty or so, even though I know
| a
| word or two in the paragraph.
|
| Thanks, Bud (in Oceanside, Ca.)
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|

You state: "In the Search function you can search for files named
*.EML and supply the words to search on".

I did the following:

A. In the Search function, in the field for "All or part of the file name:"
I inserted the file name which is "Norton - Log Viewer + file copy in Misc_
on desktop_.eml"

B. In the field for "A word or phrase in the file:" I inserted the word I
was searching for, which was "blurb".

C. In the field for "Look in:" I inserted the folder name of "Log Viewer"
that contains the file in which the word I'm searching for is located.

D. In the field for "Type of file:" I selected "(All Files and Folders)"

E. I clicked on "Search".

The above search located the correct file, "Norton - Log Viewer + file copy
in Misc_ on desktop_.eml", but when I opened the file the word "blurb" was
not highlighted, as it is when using "Ctrl./F".

Where am I going wrong?