"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
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| 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?
|
|
|
|

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

That did it!

Thank you *very* much!! That will save me a great deal of time.

Bud