Question re: word, libreoffice, etc

[naosu]

So occasionally I'll have to go back and check a detail in my stack of chapters for a story. And when the story is successful it gets very long. This makes it difficult to remember... OK which chapter was it that I talked about 'X detail'. X meaning, could be first mention of vampires, first mention of dwarves, or I can't remember which chapter I gave the main character his barrier or heal spell.

So, if you have a file folder with all those chapters in it, is it possible to do a word search to search all the word or libreoffice documents for a specific word, without having to manually go through each one?

(I know how to search for a a word in MS word, and libreoffice. You tap the magnifying glass.. and then put it in. Easy. But searching for a word from outside file and on multiple files at once I don't know if you can do that?)

This could save a TON of time to know this. (And therefore use that time to release faster to keep people happy.)

 

[jlkawaii]

Notepad++ : ouvrir tous les documents, CTRL+f, taper le ou les mots a chercher, cocher 'chercher dans tous les documents', valider. Les résultats seront accessible dans une nouvelle fenêtre horizontale tout en bas, inclus dans l'interface de notepad++

Edit:Sorry, sorry //
Notepad++: open all documents, CTRL+f, type the word(s) to be searched, check 'search in all documents', validate. The results will be accessible in a new horizontal window at the very bottom, included in the notepad++ interface

 

[naosu]

Notepad++ : ouvrir tous les documents, CTRL+f, taper le ou les mots a chercher, cocher 'chercher dans tous les documents', valider. Les résultats seront accessible dans une nouvelle fenêtre horizontale tout en bas, inclus dans l'interface de notepad++

Edit:Sorry, sorry //
Notepad++: open all documents, CTRL+f, type the word(s) to be searched, check 'search in all documents', validate. The results will be accessible in a new horizontal window at the very bottom, included in the notepad++ interface

Do you have to worry about spyware with that program? And is a certain version of it better than others? I see that there's like 5 different versions of it that are recent.

 

[Placeholder]

Use your OS's search tools to search inside that folder?

 

[naosu]

Use your OS's search tools to search inside that folder?

Well with my OS I hadn't been able to do that. Either I was doing it wrong or whatever. I was looking for more than a title of a chapter. I don't mind any suggestions from you either. Or them. Or whoever.

 

[Phantonym]

Usually I am good with technology but my brain isn't braining rn

 

[Placeholder]

Which os?

 

[Phantonym]

Which os?

OS as in Linux Microsoft etc. right? or am I tripping

 

[Placeholder]

They almost certainly each have "search inside files" accessible through the desktop's top level menu tool. But the devil is in the details.

Or grep from terminal:

Search MS word files in a directory for specific content in Linux

I have a directory structure full of MS word files and I have to search the directory for particular string. Until now I was using the following command to search files for in a directory find . ...

stackoverflow.com

 

[Lysander_Works]

So occasionally I'll have to go back and check a detail in my stack of chapters for a story. And when the story is successful it gets very long. This makes it difficult to remember... OK which chapter was it that I talked about 'X detail'. X meaning, could be first mention of vampires, first mention of dwarves, or I can't remember which chapter I gave the main character his barrier or heal spell.

So, if you have a file folder with all those chapters in it, is it possible to do a word search to search all the word or libreoffice documents for a specific word, without having to manually go through each one?

(I know how to search for a a word in MS word, and libreoffice. You tap the magnifying glass.. and then put it in. Easy. But searching for a word from outside file and on multiple files at once I don't know if you can do that?)

This could save a TON of time to know this. (And therefore use that time to release faster to keep people happy.)

Depending on which system you have, Microsoft (and in some instances of Linux) has a search function which will search for what you type inside the content rather than the file name. Is this what you mean?

 

[naosu]

Depending on which system you have, Microsoft (and in some instances of Linux) has a search function which will search for what you type inside the content rather than the file name. Is this what you mean?

Yes. I've never been able to get it to do that right.

 

[Lysander_Works]

Yes. I've never been able to get it to do that right.

It has something to do with the operating system and a search feature. Tech savvy as I am, this is not something I have paid too much attention to, but I believe this is either an option inside the "Windows Search" somewhere, an Active-X configuration, or a kernel-level feature (since some versions of windows simply do not do this for whatever reason).

I would start with the easy stuff first. Check windows settings
Might also be an indexing thing. You can run a simple test. Write down a dummy phase inside of a notepad.txt in a specific location and search for the specific phrase to see if it brings up the file. Even if it works, I am not sure what allows it to search through various other file formats.

 

[naosu]

So I was working on a story about a month ago. And I forgot which file folder I have it in. Since I write a LOT that's literally dozens of folders, to look through. Is there a way to do a search with Notepad++ to say look for stuff by what's new from within 1-2 months past from today? (And how?)

 

[CharlesEBrown]

So I was working on a story about a month ago. And I forgot which file folder I have it in. Since I write a LOT that's literally dozens of folders, to look through. Is there a way to do a search with Notepad++ to say look for stuff by what's new from within 1-2 months past from today? (And how?)

Should be able to sort by date in the search window. Not sure if there are limiters (i.e. "no more than 120 days, no less than 60 past" or something) permitted though.

 

[naosu]

Should be able to sort by date in the search window. Not sure if there are limiters (i.e. "no more than 120 days, no less than 60 past" or something) permitted though.

Amazing! Thank you.