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You can even try windows explorer search. For details see<br />
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<a href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-in/windows7/advanced-tips-for-searching-in-windows" rel="ugc">http://windows.microsoft.com/en-in/windows7/advanced-tips-for-searching-in-windows</a>
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You can even try windows explorer search. For details see

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-in/windows7/advanced-tips-for-searching-in-windows [http://windows.microsoft.com/en-in/windows7/advanced-tips-for-searching-in-windows]

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and what about PowerGrep? Is this a good tool? I just found it on the internet.
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and what about PowerGrep? Is this a good tool? I just found it on the internet.

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Thanks. we are using copernic, is working fine;
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Thanks. we are using copernic, is working fine;

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I am looking for a tool to search for a keyword in all the MS Word documents and MS Excel sheets in a very large folder on my local network
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I am looking for a tool to search for a keyword in all the MS Word documents and MS Excel sheets in a very large folder on my local network

search for akeyword in ms word documents

Microsoft Word is a commercial document editing program that is part of the Microsoft Office suite. It features numerous text-editing tools for creating richly formatted documents, along with tools for the use of macros in Word documents. Word's native file formats are denoted either by a .doc or .docx file extension. Plugins permitting the Windows versions of Word to read and write formats it does not natively support, such as the OpenDocument format (ODF) are available. Word can import and display images in common bitmap formats such as JPG and GIF. It can also be used to create and display simple line-art.

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel topics include formulas, formatting, VBA macros and user-defined functions, and everything else related to the spreadsheet user interface, including error messages.

Microsoft Excel

A Document Management System (DMS) is a system (both hardware and software) used to track, manage and store documents and reduce paper. Most are capable of keeping a record of the various versions created and modified by different users (history tracking). It is often viewed as a component of enterprise content management (ECM) systems and related to digital asset management, document imaging, workflow systems and records management systems.