Well, on the Mac he could use BBEdit to do batch searches . . .
I agree, though, get the hell out of Word!
~ Martin
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:09:14 -0600 Daniel O'Donnell daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca wrote:
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From: Al Magary al@MAGARY.COM
Sender: Medieval Texts - Philology Codicology and Technology MEDTEXTL@listserv.uiuc.edu
Subject: Need a Word-files search utility
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:51:34 -0700
To: MEDTEXTL@listserv.uiuc.edu
My Hall's Chronicle project has grown into a Word monster, consuming 26 files totaling 70MB, due to my reliance on three-column tables for transcription and notes. As my Windows XP machine can only keep two or three of these open at a time, I have difficulty tracking things down: something faintly remembered might be in file 12--or was it 25? or 7?--or maybe none of those. So I need a good fast search utility that can tackle a set of Word files and even keep its internal index uptodate as I proofread and revise..
I'm trying out Files Search Assistant (description at http://www.aks-labs.com/products/files_search_assistant.htm ) FSA seems flexible and fast. It builds a keyword index (no fewer than 173,509 different keywords in Hall, thanks to the variable 16C spelling) in less than five minutes. Subsequent word searches are quick, but FSA doesn't seem to allow browsing of that word index, which for me is a requirement. As well, I can't seem to save the index, so it must be rebuilt each time I need to use it.
Any recommendations from the list?
Thanks, Al Magary
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