Guest Harvey Posted September 19, 2007 Posted September 19, 2007 Hi everyone, I have a folder with several word files i have uses a macro to change company's name in those file , now all names have changed to a new name but when i use windows search and use the old name to search in those files all of them show up. ( basically windows search tells me all the files still have the privios words in them which is not correct) how can this happen and what is the reason? by the way i didn't have writing access to this folder until IT gave me access to run this macro. -- Best regards, Harvey
Guest Bob I Posted September 19, 2007 Posted September 19, 2007 Re: Weird results for search I suspect you are running Indexing, and since you Indexed the files BEFORE you replaced the contents of the files, it index catalog has the old data. You will need to correct the situation using any of several methods. Clear the index and re-index, turn off indexing, or don't fiddle with the guts of a file(use open edit, save to force an update to the index). Harvey wrote: > Hi everyone, > I have a folder with several word files i have uses a macro to change > company's name in those file , now all names have changed to a new name but > when i use windows search and use the old name to search in those files all > of them show up. ( basically windows search tells me all the files still have > the privios words in them which is not correct) how can this happen and what > is the reason? by the way i didn't have writing access to this folder until > IT gave me access to run this macro.
Guest Harvey Posted September 21, 2007 Posted September 21, 2007 Re: Weird results for search Thank you Bob. acctually it was a very intersting reason behind this . The old name of our company was part of each files properties\summary and Windows search was looking at those names !! -- Best regards, Harvey "Bob I" wrote: > I suspect you are running Indexing, and since you Indexed the files > BEFORE you replaced the contents of the files, it index catalog has the > old data. You will need to correct the situation using any of several > methods. Clear the index and re-index, turn off indexing, or don't > fiddle with the guts of a file(use open edit, save to force an update to > the index). > > Harvey wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > I have a folder with several word files i have uses a macro to change > > company's name in those file , now all names have changed to a new name but > > when i use windows search and use the old name to search in those files all > > of them show up. ( basically windows search tells me all the files still have > > the privios words in them which is not correct) how can this happen and what > > is the reason? by the way i didn't have writing access to this folder until > > IT gave me access to run this macro. > >
Guest Bob I Posted September 21, 2007 Posted September 21, 2007 Re: Weird results for search You're welcome. I presume you've tracked down and made the rest of the necessary edits? Harvey wrote: > Thank you Bob. acctually it was a very intersting reason behind this . The > old name of our company was part of each files properties\summary and Windows > search was looking at those names !!
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