Issue 11544 - Request for a Find File feature
Summary: Request for a Find File feature
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.0.2
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial with 5 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: tino.rachui
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Reported: 2003-02-17 06:14 UTC by kelvine
Modified: 2013-08-07 14:41 UTC (History)
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Description kelvine 2003-02-17 06:14:34 UTC 
I feel there is a need for a Find File feature in OpenOffice.org.

The OpenOffice.org file format is a compressed format and as such, cannot be 
searched using the standard Find File in Windows.
 
That means that one day when you say;  "I know I wrote the letter to such and 
such" and then want to search for the documents which include their name in 
the actual contents of the OO files, you won't be able to.

I've raised this as a Writer issues but I believe it should be a generic 
feature available across all modules where it makes sense.

I floated this issue on discuss@openoffice.org and a number of others felt it 
was worth considering.

Kelvin
Comment 1 eugenetswong 2003-02-17 19:36:47 UTC 
Perhaps the development team should consider implementing this feature using a macro instead of implementing it in the main library, binaries & executables. Having a macro will give us a sample of how to code them, & allow us to customize OOo.

Please, please, please try to reduce the bloat. It takes a long time to load up OOo on my Pentium. Please.
Comment 2 amoroder 2003-02-18 10:32:12 UTC 
A external solution is also acceptable ( or even better )
Comment 3 tino.rachui 2003-02-18 11:16:28 UTC 
Hi *,

we already considered such a find file extension for Windows and a
specification already exists, too. It is planned to implement this
feature within the OO 2.0 time frame. 
We are able to implement this feature without all the heavy OO
libraries. We did this already for the OO property sheets on Windows
(right click a file in the Windows Explorer and select "Properties").
Feel free to assign this bug to me.

Best Regards,
Tino
Comment 4 Unknown 2003-03-05 09:31:25 UTC 
*** This issue has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
Comment 5 h.ilter 2003-03-05 13:19:36 UTC 
HI->TRA: Ok, it's yours now.
Comment 6 tino.rachui 2003-04-03 06:11:12 UTC 
Accepted
Comment 7 tg2k 2003-07-29 15:50:09 UTC 
If it is possible for Find in Files to support the MS Word .doc format
that would be great too; due to interoperability with my Palm (via
Documents To Go) I have to keep using the .doc format for automatic
syncing to work.
Comment 8 tino.rachui 2003-10-13 10:20:14 UTC 
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*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 21108 ***
Comment 9 tino.rachui 2003-10-14 06:50:28 UTC 
Reassigned
Comment 10 tino.rachui 2003-10-16 06:38:06 UTC 
Reassign back to tra
Comment 11 tino.rachui 2003-10-20 12:26:27 UTC 
set to fixed in order to close it because it's duplicate to i21108
Comment 12 tino.rachui 2003-10-20 12:28:26 UTC 
closed