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Find within preview Pat Willener 11-09-2005
Posted by Pat Willener on November 9, 2005, 4:19 am
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I love MSN Desktop Search; I have a large number of documents in
various locations, so a functioning desktop search is extremely
helpful.

I also love the preview pane that allows instant viewing of any of the
found documents. However, some are rather large, and I would love to
have a Find functionality within that preview, rather than having to
open the docs in their original application.

Hope that this can be implemented some day to further improve MSN
Desktop Search.


Posted by Galen on November 9, 2005, 4:51 am
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My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> I love MSN Desktop Search; I have a large number of documents in
> various locations, so a functioning desktop search is extremely
> helpful.
>
> I also love the preview pane that allows instant viewing of any of the
> found documents. However, some are rather large, and I would love to
> have a Find functionality within that preview, rather than having to
> open the docs in their original application.
>
> Hope that this can be implemented some day to further improve MSN
> Desktop Search.

Grr... My installation has gone corrupt and won't start. How about if you
open the options, it's one of the bottom two if I recall (sorry about that)
and it's called Highlight. I'm not able to test and see if it works on just
the web results or if it also works on local files. I'll redownload and
reinstall it later.

About highlighting and the highlight viewer:
http://search.msn.com/docs/toolbar.aspx?t=MSNTbar_CONC_AboutHighlightViewer.htm

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Posted by Pat Willener on November 10, 2005, 11:37 pm
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Thanks for that tip - that does help a little. However for very large
documents, a Find within the preview would be much easier.

Sorry to hear about your corrupted installation. I also had to
reinstall recently, and it took a week to re-index everything.


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