Microsoft KB Archive/110445

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Find File Containing Text Field: Only Special Characters Work

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Q110445

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 6.0, 6.0a, 6.0c

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SYMPTOMS
When you try to search for certain characters in summary fields in the Advanced Search criteria of File Find, Word reports "No matching files found," even if files containing those characters exist in the directory.

The reserved characters that Word doesn't find include the question mark (?), asterisk (*), quotation mark ("), backslash (\), ampersand (&), tilde (~), and space . If you try to search for any of these characters by typing a backslash before it, as suggested in Online Help, Word will not find the file.

STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Word for Windows versions 6.0, 6.0a, and 6.0c. This is not a problem with Word version 6.0 for the Macintosh and Word version 7.0 for Windows 95.

WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, search for the characters using the Containing Text field.