Explorer search behaviour with SP3

[Guest Tex Wade]

After installing XP SP3 on several machines I have found the same problem on

all of them - Windows Search can no longer find a numeric string inside a

file - it only works if the search string contains one or more letters.

 

For example, if you create a new Excel spreadsheet on the desktop, put

12345678 in one cell and testsearch in another cell, save the file, then use

search to find a word or phrase in the file, it works when you look for

'testsearch' but not if you look for 12345678. This did used to work for

numbers in SP2! To be clear, I am talking about searching within files, not

searching just for a filename.

 

If anyone has two minutes to try the above I would appreciate it - I know my

Dell notebook and plenty of identical HP desktops display the same problem

but I'd be interested to hear if it affects all hardware. Also if anyone

has a fix (other than reverting to SP2...) I would be more than grateful -

careful googling has so far yielded nothing ;-)

 

Thanks in advance!

[Guest Gerry]

Re: Explorer search behaviour with SP3

 

Tex

 

My reaction is that it would be better to ask your question in an Excel

newsgroup:

microsoft.public.excel.misc

 

I use Excel 2000 a lot but your query is not something I have attempted.

I am not sure you can do it in 2000.

 

 

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Hope this helps.

 

Gerry

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Tex Wade wrote:

> After installing XP SP3 on several machines I have found the same

> problem on all of them - Windows Search can no longer find a numeric

> string inside a file - it only works if the search string contains

> one or more letters.

> For example, if you create a new Excel spreadsheet on the desktop, put

> 12345678 in one cell and testsearch in another cell, save the file,

> then use search to find a word or phrase in the file, it works when

> you look for 'testsearch' but not if you look for 12345678. This did

> used to work for numbers in SP2! To be clear, I am talking about

> searching within files, not searching just for a filename.

>

> If anyone has two minutes to try the above I would appreciate it - I

> know my Dell notebook and plenty of identical HP desktops display the

> same problem but I'd be interested to hear if it affects all

> hardware. Also if anyone has a fix (other than reverting to SP2...)

> I would be more than grateful - careful googling has so far yielded

> nothing ;-)

> Thanks in advance!