On Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 03:39 pm, Jrande wrote: > Does anyone know how to search for a particular word > in a Word document without starting Microsoft Words? > In Windows XP, I can start search advanced > search and it can search for a word that resides in a > document anywhere in your hard disk. I hope OS X has > this function somewhere! Command-F to open the Find Window. Set up search parameters as required, u se the "contents include" parameter to narrow down your search. that should do it -- Tarik Bilgin Opalblue tarik at opalblue.com