According to Jrande: >Does anyone know how to search for a particular word >in a Word document without starting Microsoft Words? >In Windows XP, I can start ìsearchî ñ ìadvanced >searchî 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! > >JranDe Lee Sure, use BBEdit, and it'll search for any word/phrase, across multiple files/folders/partitions/drives...simultaneously. ~flipper