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Old 08-23-2017, 10:52 AM
wblock@cnu.edu wblock@cnu.edu is offline Won't find Word document Windows 10 Won't find Word document Office 2016
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When I open Word 2016 and search for documents I never am able to find any. If I browse in any directory I get a message that says "No items match your search," even though there may be many in the very directory I am searching.


How can I fix this?
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Old 08-23-2017, 03:08 PM
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That all depends on your search parameters. What file specs are you giving Word to search for?
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Old 08-23-2017, 05:56 PM
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All I am doing is opening Word and then going to a sub-directory where I know there are Word documents attempting to open one.
As a test I just created a file and placed it on the desktop. When I closed that file and the attempted to open it by clicking on in Word and then looking on the desktop, Word could not find the file.

As a side note, if I go into Microsoft File Explorer and double-click a Word file, it opens perfectly.
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But you haven't said what parameters you're using in Word for the search! If, for example, you have it set to look for 'Text files (*.txt)', it won't find Word documents.
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You just nailed it. For some reason it was searching for .txt files. I can't imagine how that happened, I certainly didn't intentionally do that, but thanks for the tip.
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