Opening Office XP documents - autocomplete

Vanilla_Ice · 7 Feb 2009 at 09:24

Hi,

I recently restored a friends PC who runs XP Pro and Office XP. Since re-installing they say they have lost an autocomplete type feature when they try to open existing documents.

They believe that when opening a file they could type any of the words from the file name and all documents with the word in their name would be filtered out, making it much easier to find the document they want to open.

I have never heard of this feature. Does any one know how to enable it again? I have tried google, but didn't seem to be able to get the right results.

Thanks,

ICE

Vanilla_Ice · 8 Feb 2009 at 16:35

Anyone?

ICE

Craig321 · 8 Feb 2009 at 16:40

They might have had Windows Search 4.0 (or earlier) installed. Reinstall it and see if that feature re-appears, it should be available on the Windows Update page

swinnie · 8 Feb 2009 at 16:41

Wouldn't be something like Copernic Desktop Search? http://www.copernic.com/

Vanilla_Ice · 8 Feb 2009 at 16:50

Craig321 said:
They might have had Windows Search 4.0 (or earlier) installed. Reinstall it and see if that feature re-appears, it should be available on the Windows Update page

Good point. Will look into that.

Thanks,

ICE