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Originally Posted by toddos
"filename:foo type  df"
"search phrase type:xls"
"type:xls modified:>=March 2009<=December 2009"
Even better, save your various searches as "search folders" so that you don't have to remember the syntax every time. Then it just becomes what looks like a normal folder, but as you add files that fit the filter in any location that's indexed, they show up in your saved search.
As I said, the search is powerful, it's just not nicely exposed from the UI. |
Thank you; that helps.
I'm still not finding the joy in having a swarm of features that aren't explained anywhere in the internal help files; the idea that I need to search online to learn how to use the OS to do functions that were obvious in the previous UI is ridiculous.
Most of my experience with Vista is that it's slower & glitchier than XP. It regularly freezes the explorer window on searches. It's bad with Word 2000--slow, freezes a lot. It's not entirely compatible with Acrobat Pro 7; it won't save customized options when I close the program. (If the answer is, "you should upgrade those"--forget it. Word 03 is more than $200 from legit places, and a lot of my Acrobat plugins won't work if I upgrade. If I was willing to acquire a whole new software arrangement for the new OS, I'd switch to Linux.) And they removed the Windows Image Viewer, which I liked & found useful.
Vista is, however, a dream with Finereader 7, which finally has load & search speeds that make it work well for 1000-page batches. But I really can't tell if that's the OS or the 4GB of RAM.