It won't be highlighted. When you use the Window Search function, it
just finds the files. When you open the found file, it gets opened by
the default application for that file type. The opening application has
no idea that you got there via a search. This is true when using search
for any file type, not just EML.

Once you've opened the message, you'll need to do the find text within
message to find the specific text.

If you already know the single file that you want, there is no point in
doing the Windows Search. That's why I suggest that you enter the *.EML
for the file name. That will search all EML files within the specified
folder for the specified text.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Bud" wrote in message
news:Rd2jg.28743$QP4.7157@fed1read12...

"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...
| EML files are text files. You can use the Windows Search function
on
| them.
|
| 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.
|
| --
|
| Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
|
|
| "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.)
|
|
|
|

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?