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Wing File Search can search terabytes of text in a second.  It does this by building an index that stores the location of each word in your files.  Therefore, to get started with Wing File Search, the first step is to build an index of your documents.

 

Indexing Documents

 

1.   Click Index > Create Index.

 

 

 

2.   In the Create Index dialog box, enter a name for the index and click OK.

 

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3.   Wing File Search will ask if you want to add documents to the index.  Click Yes to go to the Update Index dialog box.

 

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4.   Add documents to the index

Click Add to add a folder to the list of folders to index.

 

 

5.   Click Start Indexing to begin adding documents to your index.  

 

 

Searching using the Index

 

1.   Click the Search  button on the toolbar, to open the Search dialog box.

 

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Indexes to search

The top of the dialog box shows a list of the indexes you have created; select one or more to search.

 

 

2.   Enter a search under Search request.

 

 

3.   Click Search to begin the search.

 

 

Viewing Search Results

 

After a search, Wing File Search will display the results of the search.  The top half of the window will list all of the files retrieved in the search, and the lower half will show the first document in the list, with hits highlighted in black.

 

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1.   To select a document to view from the search results list, click on it.

 

 

2.   To change the way search results are sorted, click on one of the column headers (Name, Score, Location, Size, etc.).

 

 

3.   Double click the list item to open a document in the application associated with it.  For example, a Word document would be launched in Microsoft Word.