Searching Word Documents

[scottydd]

I would like to be able to search particular Microsoft Word Documents for containing text, can i do this with VBScript or should i use something different? I know you can do containing text searches thru Windows Explorer, but the problem is that i only need to search about 12 documents out of 5k documents that are in the directory. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Scott

 

[ClayG]

You may or may not get away with opening a Word document as Text (FSO.OpenTextFile) and either reading line-by-line or ReadAll. Obviously the Word format contains a fair amount of non-Ascii data, maybe the your string will be findable in that, maybe not. One problem is some characters (eg chr(0)) may be treated as an end-of-file.

The proper way to do it would be to open a Word COM object, probably (I dont know the details):
set WordObj = CreateObject( "Word.Application&quot
I guess theres an OpenDocument method or you .add to the Documents collection - open each document. Then either convert it all to Text so you can use Instr, or more sophisticated again, use Words build-in Find/Select methods.

Personally, I would consider automating a dump of the Word documents to text files, so that search can be very simple.