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[Ashton Crusher]

Hi, Dave.

You've still not made it clear whether you want to READ the files, or to
SEARCH for text in them. Those are two different jobs and may take two
separate programs.

There are MANY programs to simply read text files. Every version of Windows
has included Notepad, which reads text files quite nicely; that's its job!
(Start | All Programs | Windows Accessories | Notepad - or just press the
WinKey, type "notepad" and press Enter.) And more sophisticated programs
like Microsoft Word will handle them easily.

To Search for text in a folder (or a whole computer) full of files, just
click that Win7 "orb" (aka Start or the WinKey or a few other names), then
type in what you are looking for and....wait. That orb also acts as the
intro to Windows Search. It will first search for a file with the name you
typed in, and then will search for that text within files. See my first
message to Ed Cryer in this thread for how to use the Indexing Options to be
sure Win7 will search the contents of .txt files. When you get it working
right, just press the WinKey and type "home" - with or without the quotes -
into the box that will appear in the lower left corner of your screen, the
one that says "Search programs and files", and it will list "Home on the
Range", "My Old Kentucky Home", and any other files that include the word
"home". Then all you have to do is click on the file of your choice.

If you will make the effort (investment) to learn a few basic functions of
your computer and Windows, it will pay you dividends, not just for today's
problem but as long as you keep using computers. And that might be for the
rest of your life. ;^}

RC

If I am reading his intent correctly, here's what he wants to be able
to do, all seamlessly with one program without having to retype
anything.

1 - select a directory and subdirectories to search in
2 - enter the target word or phrase such as "love hurts"
3 - click "go" and have the program search all the files (or a subset
such as *.txt) for that phrase.
4 - when it finds that phrase, list all the files that contain it
5 - when he selects and double clicks on the file name then the
program would
a) open the file in a file viewer
AND WITHOUT having to retype the phrase
b) the file viewer would highlight and go to the first occurrence of
the phrase and would also highlight all other occupancies.

If multiple files had the phrase you could go back to the list of
found files and repeat a) and b)

I'm not aware of any program that does that.

 

[housetrained]

"Dragon" wrote in message
Hi guys could someone help me please, when i was using Windows vista i had a
document viwer program that could read all my text files so i could find
particular songs for my karaoke discs, but with windows 7 that program will
not work. I have searched everywhere with no sucess could some please help.
All my files are in .txt format and have over 2000 files so manually it
would take me forever, so i need soemthing that would search each one to
find the song i am looking for like i did in vista.

cheers dave

if each song has its title as the file name the just hit the windows key and
type the song's name - voila

 

[John Taylor]

If I am reading his intent correctly, here's what he wants to be able
to do, all seamlessly with one program without having to retype
anything.

1 - select a directory and subdirectories to search in
2 - enter the target word or phrase such as "love hurts"
3 - click "go" and have the program search all the files (or a subset
such as *.txt) for that phrase.
4 - when it finds that phrase, list all the files that contain it
5 - when he selects and double clicks on the file name then the
program would
a) open the file in a file viewer
AND WITHOUT having to retype the phrase
b) the file viewer would highlight and go to the first occurrence of
the phrase and would also highlight all other occupancies.

If multiple files had the phrase you could go back to the list of
found files and repeat a) and b)

I'm not aware of any program that does that.

G'day,

I have a program (not free) that does pretty much all you've mentioned, as
well as searching within ZIP archives. Been using it for years and it's
more than paid for itself over that time.

The name is Examine32 (although there is also a 64-bit version now), and the
URL is http://www.examine32.com/.

Briefly, it can:

.. search any type of file. Text files and Microsoft Word, rich text format
(RTF), WordPerfect, PDF (Acrobat files), HTML (web pages), XML, StarOffice,
OpenOffice and Lotus Symphony files are specifically supported.
.. use either ordinary text or GREP-like regular expressions. The logical
operators OR, AND, NOT and XOR can be used with a specified search
proximity.
.. search files within ZIP archives.
.. return a list of findings with file details, the selection highlighted in
context, and line number.
.. save your search results to disk and retrieve them at a later date.

Regards,

John

 

[Dragon]

"Ashton Crusher" wrote in message

Hi, Dave.

You've still not made it clear whether you want to READ the files, or to
SEARCH for text in them. Those are two different jobs and may take two
separate programs.

There are MANY programs to simply read text files. Every version of
Windows
has included Notepad, which reads text files quite nicely; that's its job!
(Start | All Programs | Windows Accessories | Notepad - or just press the
WinKey, type "notepad" and press Enter.) And more sophisticated programs
like Microsoft Word will handle them easily.

To Search for text in a folder (or a whole computer) full of files, just
click that Win7 "orb" (aka Start or the WinKey or a few other names), then
type in what you are looking for and....wait. That orb also acts as the
intro to Windows Search. It will first search for a file with the name you
typed in, and then will search for that text within files. See my first
message to Ed Cryer in this thread for how to use the Indexing Options to
be
sure Win7 will search the contents of .txt files. When you get it working
right, just press the WinKey and type "home" - with or without the quotes -
into the box that will appear in the lower left corner of your screen, the
one that says "Search programs and files", and it will list "Home on the
Range", "My Old Kentucky Home", and any other files that include the word
"home". Then all you have to do is click on the file of your choice.

If you will make the effort (investment) to learn a few basic functions of
your computer and Windows, it will pay you dividends, not just for today's
problem but as long as you keep using computers. And that might be for the
rest of your life. ;^}

RC

If I am reading his intent correctly, here's what he wants to be able
to do, all seamlessly with one program without having to retype
anything.

1 - select a directory and subdirectories to search in
2 - enter the target word or phrase such as "love hurts"
3 - click "go" and have the program search all the files (or a subset
such as *.txt) for that phrase.
4 - when it finds that phrase, list all the files that contain it
5 - when he selects and double clicks on the file name then the
program would
a) open the file in a file viewer
AND WITHOUT having to retype the phrase
b) the file viewer would highlight and go to the first occurrence of
the phrase and would also highlight all other occupancies.

If multiple files had the phrase you could go back to the list of
found files and repeat a) and b)

I'm not aware of any program that does that.

Spot on mate, i have a progeam that does it in previous versions of windows
as stated but not Win7

cheers for understanding