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Moonliner
02-21-2010, 10:41 AM
I need to search a long word document to find words that are NEAR each other but I'll be dammed if I can find a way to do it short of importing the entire damn thing into a SQL table.

Is there way in Microsoft Word to find things like: "California" within 20 words of "regulation"?
BarTopDancer
02-21-2010, 10:56 AM
It looks like there are programs that you can download to search. The file has to be saved as .txt. Other than that (which I learned from Google (http://tinyurl.com/yan5tmr)) I have no clue.

(the link is to the search I did, not a specific application).
Moonliner
02-21-2010, 11:18 AM
It looks like there are programs that you can download to search. The file has to be saved as .txt. Other than that (which I learned from Google (http://tinyurl.com/yan5tmr)) I have no clue.

(the link is to the search I did, not a specific application).

I did pretty much the same search but the results are primarily slimy warz sites with questionable offerings.
BarTopDancer
02-21-2010, 11:42 AM
That was my opinion of it too. Maybe Acrobat has a proximity search?