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Then why didn't you tell SP how to access "Windows Explorer," rather
than forcing SP to come back and _ask_ for "more detailed instructions"? On Oct 14, 5:55*am, "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: No, I did not mean My Computer. *I meant what I said. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... By "Windows Explorer," Doug means Start "My Computer" (in Windows XP) or "Computer" (in Vista). (When you burrow more deeply into Windows, it's still called Explorer.) If you're running Vista, there's a "Search" box on almost any panel you open by (double-)clicking on a folder. On Oct 13, 3:34 pm, SP wrote: Thanks for answering but I don't understand --- please provide more detailed instructions. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: The search facility in Windows Explorer can do that. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "SP" wrote in message ... Is there any kind of "advanced search" option? What I want to do is search for a document when I know a key phrase inside the document but can't recall the document name.-- |
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Ms Barnhill,
While Doug was confirming that he meant what he said and Mr. Daniels was off doing what he does, I did a little "lite" research. Despite our angst with Microsoft's naming methods or choices it seems that when one wishes to speak of the file manager application associated with Windows operating systems from Windows95 onward and one wants to be correct then the proper term is the one that the "old hands" use "Windows Explorer." It provides a graphical user interface for accessing the file systmes. It is also the component of the operating system that presents the user interface on the monitor and enables the user to control the computer. It is sometimes referred to as the Windows Shell, or simply "Explorer." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Explorer While the "My Comuter Tool" on the start menu serves multiple functions, it seems that "clicking" the "Windows Explorer" icon on StartAll ProgramsAccessories, the "My Computer" icon on the Start Menu, or by pressing WinKey+e, all initiate a command line that displays some variant of the same thing i.e., the Windows Explorer file manager application. I have not wiped my hard drive and reinstalled Windows to confirm the defualt diplay, but when I click "My Computer" the file manager application opens captioned "My Computer" with a menu bar and a list of various drives, hardware, and the shared and my documents folder in a large single window. There are no tool bars displayed. If I were a "newbie" I would be no closer to understanding what Doug meant than if I had stayed in bed this morning. The file manager application associated with Windows Explorer can also be initiated using StartRun. Type in: "Explorer" and press "OK" and the application opens with the same view I see when I use StartAll ProgramsAccessoriesWindows Explorer" By using command line switches any folder can be initially diplayed. For example: Explorer /e,/root,C: Opens the file manager application with the C:\ directory expanded. Source: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314853 Special folders can also be initially shown and expanded using command line switches and GUID information. For example, the following gives the same display as pressing WinKey+e %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /E,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D} Source: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/0...dows-explorer/ Any of these command lines could be set as the target for a desktop shortcut. What is to be learned from all of this? I have learned: 1. Doug meant exactly what he said: "The search facility in Windows Explorer can do that." 2. If the sources are reliable and correct, the "Start" menu itself gets its life from Windows Explorer. While the search facility can be initiated from the file manager application by showing the standard buttons toolbar (ViewToolbarsStandard Buttons) and clicing "Search," it can also be initiated with StartSearch. Again both emerge and begin life from the slime of Windows Explorer. 3. Nothing has changed. Mr. Daniels is not unfailingly polite. He is as rude and arrogant as ever. Except for a very, very narrow range of arcaneWord skills, he rarely knows what he is talking about. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: I'm not sure I understand this. I was not aware that Windows Explorer was listed as an Accessory, though I suppose that makes sense. When I use it, however, it expands My Documents (and that is the heading in the title bar), which is rarely what I want when I open what I call Windows Explorer, using Winkey+E. To be sure, that app has My Computer on the title bar, and it shows me what I want to see, which is the various drives that I might want to access. If you use the Windows Explorer path you mention to open My Documents, then it is that much more difficult to find system files, while are buried inside My Computer (on C A third way to access an Explorer window is to right-click on the Start button and choose Explore. This opens a window with the title bar C:\Documents and Settings\username\Start Menu, which is an intriguing place to start but not, to me, as useful as My Computer, so I will continue to use Winkey+E. "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... On Oct 13, 7:45 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: By "Windows Explorer," Doug means Start "My Computer" (in Windows XP) or "Computer" (in Vista). (When you burrow more deeply into Windows, it's still called Explorer.) If you're running Vista, there's a "Search" box on almost any panel you open by (double-)clicking on a folder. On Oct 13, 3:34 pm, SP wrote: Thanks for answering but I don't understand --- please provide more detailed instructions. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: The search facility in Windows Explorer can do that. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "SP" wrote in message ... Is there any kind of "advanced search" option? What I want to do is search for a document when I know a key phrase inside the document but can't recall the document name.-- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Peter, Weren't you spanked just a few weeks ago for posting here your opinion of what other people "mean" when they post? It seems that you would respect the fact that these people are considerably more experienced and familiar with computers in general and Word in particular than you are! I still use Windows Explorer exlusively. I imagine a lot of other people do to. I like the layout and feel of it better than My Comptuter. When I use the term in a post it is what I mean. I don't mean "My Computer" and I don't use Vista. In the future and in your ongoing but faltering quest to bridle your arrogance you might consider something like: "Windows Explorer" is a windows application that you can use to work with and manage files and folders on your computer. You can access it in WindowsXP by clicking StartAll ProgramAccessorriesWIndows Explorer. You can easily pin it to your Start menu. Alternatively you can use "My Computer" with Windows XP or "Computer" with Vista. This way you have provided helpful information without pretending know more than another person. Cheers. -- Greg Maxey See my web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org for an eclectic collection of Word Tips. "It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never known neither victory nor defeat." - TR |
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I don't use the My Computer desktop icon to get to (what I call) Windows
Explorer because Winkey+E is available even when the desktop is not visible. I do leave the icon there (along with a lot of others I don't use much) because it is a convenient way to access other information (such as the Device Manager), by right-clicking and choosing properties. Since I run all programs maximized, I rarely see the desktop; consequently it doesn't bother me that I have four neat columns of mostly unused icons. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... Ms Barnhill, "Windows Explorer" is on the StartAll ProgramsAccessories tree. I have used if for years and I use it all of the time. So much so that I have pinned it to the Start Menu. Unlike some people, I don't like a cluttered desktop. We all can't be like Peter T. Daniels. If "My Computer" was ever on it then I deleted it ages ago. Yes, there is a "My Computer" on the Start Menu as well. I don't use it, because I don't like the layout and I have never had the interest or taken the time to see if I could make the layout suit my needs. Windows Explorer suits my needs and that is what I use. You are correct. Starting Windows Explorer with StartAll ProgarmsAccessorries opens the Explorer with My Documents. That is what I usully want. Using the WinKey+E opens almost an identical view except "My Computer" is expanded. With a little manipulation I can make the "StartMy Comptuter" view that Mr. Daniels insists is the only acceptable approach look almost exactly like the view I get with "Windows Explorer." I just haven't found a way to make the settings stick. Who knows (I don't) all three of them may be the very same application with a different command line setup that determines how they initially appear. The bottom line as far as I am concerned is that Mr. Daniels should find another way to interject his opinions, advice and suggestions and stop telling other people what another person means. Considering that he can never admit that he is wrong I suppose we will all have to endure his arrogance. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: I'm not sure I understand this. I was not aware that Windows Explorer was listed as an Accessory, though I suppose that makes sense. When I use it, however, it expands My Documents (and that is the heading in the title bar), which is rarely what I want when I open what I call Windows Explorer, using Winkey+E. To be sure, that app has My Computer on the title bar, and it shows me what I want to see, which is the various drives that I might want to access. If you use the Windows Explorer path you mention to open My Documents, then it is that much more difficult to find system files, while are buried inside My Computer (on C A third way to access an Explorer window is to right-click on the Start button and choose Explore. This opens a window with the title bar C:\Documents and Settings\username\Start Menu, which is an intriguing place to start but not, to me, as useful as My Computer, so I will continue to use Winkey+E. "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... On Oct 13, 7:45 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: By "Windows Explorer," Doug means Start "My Computer" (in Windows XP) or "Computer" (in Vista). (When you burrow more deeply into Windows, it's still called Explorer.) If you're running Vista, there's a "Search" box on almost any panel you open by (double-)clicking on a folder. On Oct 13, 3:34 pm, SP wrote: Thanks for answering but I don't understand --- please provide more detailed instructions. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: The search facility in Windows Explorer can do that. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "SP" wrote in message ... Is there any kind of "advanced search" option? What I want to do is search for a document when I know a key phrase inside the document but can't recall the document name.-- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Peter, Weren't you spanked just a few weeks ago for posting here your opinion of what other people "mean" when they post? It seems that you would respect the fact that these people are considerably more experienced and familiar with computers in general and Word in particular than you are! I still use Windows Explorer exlusively. I imagine a lot of other people do to. I like the layout and feel of it better than My Comptuter. When I use the term in a post it is what I mean. I don't mean "My Computer" and I don't use Vista. In the future and in your ongoing but faltering quest to bridle your arrogance you might consider something like: "Windows Explorer" is a windows application that you can use to work with and manage files and folders on your computer. You can access it in WindowsXP by clicking StartAll ProgramAccessorriesWIndows Explorer. You can easily pin it to your Start menu. Alternatively you can use "My Computer" with Windows XP or "Computer" with Vista. This way you have provided helpful information without pretending know more than another person. Cheers. -- Greg Maxey See my web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org for an eclectic collection of Word Tips. "It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never known neither victory nor defeat." - TR |
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Other than to display your unbridled arrogance, what purpose has your
post served? Do your really think that your feeble attempt to explain what Doug meant has brought the OP that much closer to finding his or her file? StartMy Computer opens the "Windows Explorer" file manager application captioned "My Computer" with a file menu and a list of directories, hardware, and a few folders. It may or may not have a toolbar diplayed showing an icon "Search." There or not, the "Search" icon, if pressed, initiates the search facility of Windows Explorer. So if the icon where not there could we then conclude that you had "forced" the OP to come back for more detailed instructions? The OP can execute the search facility by pressing StartSearch. On Oct 14, 8:18*am, "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: Then why didn't you tell SP how to access "Windows Explorer," rather than forcing SP to come back and _ask_ for "more detailed instructions"? On Oct 14, 5:55*am, "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: No, I did not mean My Computer. *I meant what I said. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... By "Windows Explorer," Doug means Start "My Computer" (in Windows XP) or "Computer" (in Vista). (When you burrow more deeply into Windows, it's still called Explorer.) If you're running Vista, there's a "Search" box on almost any panel you open by (double-)clicking on a folder. On Oct 13, 3:34 pm, SP wrote: Thanks for answering but I don't understand --- please provide more detailed instructions. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: The search facility in Windows Explorer can do that. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "SP" wrote in message ... Is there any kind of "advanced search" option? What I want to do is search for a document when I know a key phrase inside the document but can't recall the document name.--- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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On Oct 13, 2:28*pm, SP wrote:
Is there any kind of "advanced search" option? *What I want to do is search for a document when I know a key phrase inside the document but can't recall the document name. SP, I am sorry. Sometimes I let my quest to muzzle a persistent troll come before trying to assist people with Word issues. You can access the Windows Explorer seach facility in WindowsXP by clicking StartSearch. When the facility opens, and assuming your are looking for a Word document, click "Documents" then "use advanced search options" there you will see a field to enter the key phrase contained in your document. I hope this helps. Your question and your follow on question was perfectly acceptable. I wish I would have tried to help you earlier. |
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Another way to access an Explorer window is to double-click the My Documents
icon on the desktop. Like you, I can't be sure to what extent my customizations are affecting my view of any of these windows, but it is possible to display various toolbars and to customize them. I suspect that the Folders button I have on my toolbar (to open the Folders panel if it is not displayed) is my customization. I also discovered that the panel at the left is called the Explorer Bar, and that there are a number of choices for what it displays. My preference is for Folders, but when you choose to search, you get the Search panel (which I find much less usable than in the past). What could be especially confusing, I think, is that several of the options are things like Favorites and History that would provide access to Web pages using Internet Explorer, further blurring the difference between the two Explorer applications. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... Ms Barnhill, While Doug was confirming that he meant what he said and Mr. Daniels was off doing what he does, I did a little "lite" research. Despite our angst with Microsoft's naming methods or choices it seems that when one wishes to speak of the file manager application associated with Windows operating systems from Windows95 onward and one wants to be correct then the proper term is the one that the "old hands" use "Windows Explorer." It provides a graphical user interface for accessing the file systmes. It is also the component of the operating system that presents the user interface on the monitor and enables the user to control the computer. It is sometimes referred to as the Windows Shell, or simply "Explorer." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Explorer While the "My Comuter Tool" on the start menu serves multiple functions, it seems that "clicking" the "Windows Explorer" icon on StartAll ProgramsAccessories, the "My Computer" icon on the Start Menu, or by pressing WinKey+e, all initiate a command line that displays some variant of the same thing i.e., the Windows Explorer file manager application. I have not wiped my hard drive and reinstalled Windows to confirm the defualt diplay, but when I click "My Computer" the file manager application opens captioned "My Computer" with a menu bar and a list of various drives, hardware, and the shared and my documents folder in a large single window. There are no tool bars displayed. If I were a "newbie" I would be no closer to understanding what Doug meant than if I had stayed in bed this morning. The file manager application associated with Windows Explorer can also be initiated using StartRun. Type in: "Explorer" and press "OK" and the application opens with the same view I see when I use StartAll ProgramsAccessoriesWindows Explorer" By using command line switches any folder can be initially diplayed. For example: Explorer /e,/root,C: Opens the file manager application with the C:\ directory expanded. Source: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314853 Special folders can also be initially shown and expanded using command line switches and GUID information. For example, the following gives the same display as pressing WinKey+e %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /E,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D} Source: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/0...dows-explorer/ Any of these command lines could be set as the target for a desktop shortcut. What is to be learned from all of this? I have learned: 1. Doug meant exactly what he said: "The search facility in Windows Explorer can do that." 2. If the sources are reliable and correct, the "Start" menu itself gets its life from Windows Explorer. While the search facility can be initiated from the file manager application by showing the standard buttons toolbar (ViewToolbarsStandard Buttons) and clicing "Search," it can also be initiated with StartSearch. Again both emerge and begin life from the slime of Windows Explorer. 3. Nothing has changed. Mr. Daniels is not unfailingly polite. He is as rude and arrogant as ever. Except for a very, very narrow range of arcaneWord skills, he rarely knows what he is talking about. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: I'm not sure I understand this. I was not aware that Windows Explorer was listed as an Accessory, though I suppose that makes sense. When I use it, however, it expands My Documents (and that is the heading in the title bar), which is rarely what I want when I open what I call Windows Explorer, using Winkey+E. To be sure, that app has My Computer on the title bar, and it shows me what I want to see, which is the various drives that I might want to access. If you use the Windows Explorer path you mention to open My Documents, then it is that much more difficult to find system files, while are buried inside My Computer (on C A third way to access an Explorer window is to right-click on the Start button and choose Explore. This opens a window with the title bar C:\Documents and Settings\username\Start Menu, which is an intriguing place to start but not, to me, as useful as My Computer, so I will continue to use Winkey+E. "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... On Oct 13, 7:45 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: By "Windows Explorer," Doug means Start "My Computer" (in Windows XP) or "Computer" (in Vista). (When you burrow more deeply into Windows, it's still called Explorer.) If you're running Vista, there's a "Search" box on almost any panel you open by (double-)clicking on a folder. On Oct 13, 3:34 pm, SP wrote: Thanks for answering but I don't understand --- please provide more detailed instructions. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: The search facility in Windows Explorer can do that. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "SP" wrote in message ... Is there any kind of "advanced search" option? What I want to do is search for a document when I know a key phrase inside the document but can't recall the document name.-- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Peter, Weren't you spanked just a few weeks ago for posting here your opinion of what other people "mean" when they post? It seems that you would respect the fact that these people are considerably more experienced and familiar with computers in general and Word in particular than you are! I still use Windows Explorer exlusively. I imagine a lot of other people do to. I like the layout and feel of it better than My Comptuter. When I use the term in a post it is what I mean. I don't mean "My Computer" and I don't use Vista. In the future and in your ongoing but faltering quest to bridle your arrogance you might consider something like: "Windows Explorer" is a windows application that you can use to work with and manage files and folders on your computer. You can access it in WindowsXP by clicking StartAll ProgramAccessorriesWIndows Explorer. You can easily pin it to your Start menu. Alternatively you can use "My Computer" with Windows XP or "Computer" with Vista. This way you have provided helpful information without pretending know more than another person. Cheers. -- Greg Maxey See my web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org for an eclectic collection of Word Tips. "It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never known neither victory nor defeat." - TR |
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FWIW, I find it much more efficient, if I want to search a specific folder
or drive, to open an Explorer window first, open the desired folder or drive, and then click Search on the toolbar. This restricts the search to just that folder or drive. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... On Oct 13, 2:28 pm, SP wrote: Is there any kind of "advanced search" option? What I want to do is search for a document when I know a key phrase inside the document but can't recall the document name. SP, I am sorry. Sometimes I let my quest to muzzle a persistent troll come before trying to assist people with Word issues. You can access the Windows Explorer seach facility in WindowsXP by clicking StartSearch. When the facility opens, and assuming your are looking for a Word document, click "Documents" then "use advanced search options" there you will see a field to enter the key phrase contained in your document. I hope this helps. Your question and your follow on question was perfectly acceptable. I wish I would have tried to help you earlier. |
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Apparently there are all sorts of ways to initiate the file management
facility of Windows Explorer. We may never discover them all. Each, or rather many, seem to display a different initial view i.e., with or without folders displayed, with or without toolbars displayed, etc. The key feature between them all seems to be they are still the file management facility of Windows Explorer. That is what it is call regardless if Mr. Daniels likes it or not. My point in this branch of this thread remains the same. Daniel's habit of telling others what someone else means is rude and arrogant. Especially so when what he tells isn't in fact what the other person meant at all. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Another way to access an Explorer window is to double-click the My Documents icon on the desktop. Like you, I can't be sure to what extent my customizations are affecting my view of any of these windows, but it is possible to display various toolbars and to customize them. I suspect that the Folders button I have on my toolbar (to open the Folders panel if it is not displayed) is my customization. I also discovered that the panel at the left is called the Explorer Bar, and that there are a number of choices for what it displays. My preference is for Folders, but when you choose to search, you get the Search panel (which I find much less usable than in the past). What could be especially confusing, I think, is that several of the options are things like Favorites and History that would provide access to Web pages using Internet Explorer, further blurring the difference between the two Explorer applications. "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... Ms Barnhill, While Doug was confirming that he meant what he said and Mr. Daniels was off doing what he does, I did a little "lite" research. Despite our angst with Microsoft's naming methods or choices it seems that when one wishes to speak of the file manager application associated with Windows operating systems from Windows95 onward and one wants to be correct then the proper term is the one that the "old hands" use "Windows Explorer." It provides a graphical user interface for accessing the file systmes. It is also the component of the operating system that presents the user interface on the monitor and enables the user to control the computer. It is sometimes referred to as the Windows Shell, or simply "Explorer." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Explorer While the "My Comuter Tool" on the start menu serves multiple functions, it seems that "clicking" the "Windows Explorer" icon on StartAll ProgramsAccessories, the "My Computer" icon on the Start Menu, or by pressing WinKey+e, all initiate a command line that displays some variant of the same thing i.e., the Windows Explorer file manager application. I have not wiped my hard drive and reinstalled Windows to confirm the defualt diplay, but when I click "My Computer" the file manager application opens captioned "My Computer" with a menu bar and a list of various drives, hardware, and the shared and my documents folder in a large single window. There are no tool bars displayed. If I were a "newbie" I would be no closer to understanding what Doug meant than if I had stayed in bed this morning. The file manager application associated with Windows Explorer can also be initiated using StartRun. Type in: "Explorer" and press "OK" and the application opens with the same view I see when I use StartAll ProgramsAccessoriesWindows Explorer" By using command line switches any folder can be initially diplayed. For example: Explorer /e,/root,C: Opens the file manager application with the C:\ directory expanded. Source: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314853 Special folders can also be initially shown and expanded using command line switches and GUID information. For example, the following gives the same display as pressing WinKey+e %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /E,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D} Source: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/0...dows-explorer/ Any of these command lines could be set as the target for a desktop shortcut. What is to be learned from all of this? I have learned: 1. Doug meant exactly what he said: "The search facility in Windows Explorer can do that." 2. If the sources are reliable and correct, the "Start" menu itself gets its life from Windows Explorer. While the search facility can be initiated from the file manager application by showing the standard buttons toolbar (ViewToolbarsStandard Buttons) and clicing "Search," it can also be initiated with StartSearch. Again both emerge and begin life from the slime of Windows Explorer. 3. Nothing has changed. Mr. Daniels is not unfailingly polite. He is as rude and arrogant as ever. Except for a very, very narrow range of arcaneWord skills, he rarely knows what he is talking about. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: I'm not sure I understand this. I was not aware that Windows Explorer was listed as an Accessory, though I suppose that makes sense. When I use it, however, it expands My Documents (and that is the heading in the title bar), which is rarely what I want when I open what I call Windows Explorer, using Winkey+E. To be sure, that app has My Computer on the title bar, and it shows me what I want to see, which is the various drives that I might want to access. If you use the Windows Explorer path you mention to open My Documents, then it is that much more difficult to find system files, while are buried inside My Computer (on C A third way to access an Explorer window is to right-click on the Start button and choose Explore. This opens a window with the title bar C:\Documents and Settings\username\Start Menu, which is an intriguing place to start but not, to me, as useful as My Computer, so I will continue to use Winkey+E. "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... On Oct 13, 7:45 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: By "Windows Explorer," Doug means Start "My Computer" (in Windows XP) or "Computer" (in Vista). (When you burrow more deeply into Windows, it's still called Explorer.) If you're running Vista, there's a "Search" box on almost any panel you open by (double-)clicking on a folder. On Oct 13, 3:34 pm, SP wrote: Thanks for answering but I don't understand --- please provide more detailed instructions. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: The search facility in Windows Explorer can do that. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "SP" wrote in message ... Is there any kind of "advanced search" option? What I want to do is search for a document when I know a key phrase inside the document but can't recall the document name.-- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Peter, Weren't you spanked just a few weeks ago for posting here your opinion of what other people "mean" when they post? It seems that you would respect the fact that these people are considerably more experienced and familiar with computers in general and Word in particular than you are! I still use Windows Explorer exlusively. I imagine a lot of other people do to. I like the layout and feel of it better than My Comptuter. When I use the term in a post it is what I mean. I don't mean "My Computer" and I don't use Vista. In the future and in your ongoing but faltering quest to bridle your arrogance you might consider something like: "Windows Explorer" is a windows application that you can use to work with and manage files and folders on your computer. You can access it in WindowsXP by clicking StartAll ProgramAccessorriesWIndows Explorer. You can easily pin it to your Start menu. Alternatively you can use "My Computer" with Windows XP or "Computer" with Vista. This way you have provided helpful information without pretending know more than another person. Cheers. -- Greg Maxey See my web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org for an eclectic collection of Word Tips. "It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never known neither victory nor defeat." - TR -- Greg Maxey See my web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org for an eclectic collection of Word Tips. "It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never known neither victory nor defeat." - TR |
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"advanced" search option
Or you can click a directory or folder in any Windows Explorer file
management view, then right click and select "Search" from the shortcut menu. This also restricts the search to the selected directory or folder. No telling what one might learn and discover once they accept that they don't know as much as they think they know and start to explore Windows Explorer ;-) Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: FWIW, I find it much more efficient, if I want to search a specific folder or drive, to open an Explorer window first, open the desired folder or drive, and then click Search on the toolbar. This restricts the search to just that folder or drive. "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... On Oct 13, 2:28 pm, SP wrote: Is there any kind of "advanced search" option? What I want to do is search for a document when I know a key phrase inside the document but can't recall the document name. SP, I am sorry. Sometimes I let my quest to muzzle a persistent troll come before trying to assist people with Word issues. You can access the Windows Explorer seach facility in WindowsXP by clicking StartSearch. When the facility opens, and assuming your are looking for a Word document, click "Documents" then "use advanced search options" there you will see a field to enter the key phrase contained in your document. I hope this helps. Your question and your follow on question was perfectly acceptable. I wish I would have tried to help you earlier. -- Greg Maxey See my web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org for an eclectic collection of Word Tips. "It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never known neither victory nor defeat." - TR |
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