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Do you wish you could see what you were looking for in documents, mails etc - now you can as search and find are improved

You may have noticed that enabling people to find the right piece of information has become a bit of a religious event within Microsoft.  Search tools to date include

However things have continued to improve with these engined and Office 2007.

For example, you can be inside Outlook, type a word in the search bar and within a fraction of a second have returned to you all the mails, calendar items or contacts that have that word in.  You can even type something like "from:David received:last week" and get the mails from me that I sent last week. One nice featrue is that a nice yellow highlighter pen will show you where in the mail etc the magical words are, so finding them becomes easier.

Obviously the new search engine in Vista / WDS will find documents searching the content itself.  I then saw this post, saying that the same process can be delivered from inside a document, so highlighting all the nice words you were looking for - makes it easier to find the right thing now!

ttfn

 

David


Posted Tue, Jul 11 2006 4:19 AM by David Overton

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