searching within multiple files

[dilbert]

sgrimshaw said:

dilbert said:

sgrimshaw said:

He needs something that will search Word, Excel and PDF files.

Last time I looked, all of those formats contained plain text representations of their content, presumably in order that "grep" type functions can work.

I would accept that PDF files don't have to, but they usually do!!!

Dilbert,

I did a quick test and from "text" files, the output would be usable, but with word and excel files the output needs so much work it's just not worth it.

BTW - I just looked more closely at Powergrep, that does have more of a chance, but frankly the dedicated software is so much easier to use "why bother".

Simon

I'm not here to tell you what to do. You dont have to apologise either. The dedicated software is not my choice though, because it seems so limited. If it does what you want, why not?