Having trouble finding a word in multiple files

[Liam Proven]

On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 17:44, Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:
>
> Largely right. I have been through both sets of specs as far as I could
> before giving up in disgust. There was an opportunity — at least insofar
> as the bid for an ISO standard was concerned — to do it right, and both
> organisations muffed it.

Thanks for the confirmation! :-)


> :-) Best place for all good ideas. It's actually much "worse" (or
> "better") than that, depending on what you want to do.

*LOL*

> No, really it's not. A lot of people were saying "oh but data
> transmission takes time, and not everyone has broadband, and its
> expensive" — which was true in 1995 (and, horrifying to see, still is
> for many people) — but the W3C's target for generating and storing XML
> was companies, which have large, fast facilities, not individuals on
> dial-up connections. In the long run it really won't matter, and it was
> felt better to get it right for the long run even at the expense of
> difficulty in the short term. XML has been around for 25 years and we
> still hear people complaining about having to learn "new technology" :-)

No, it's not that.

At least in my role, I have to _hand-write_ XML, and although I have
learned to read and write it to some degree, I think that for such
purposes it's horribly verbose.

It's almost like having to hand-write PostScript or something. (I
choose that because I know people that did.)

> True, but improving. Last time I had an actual irretrievable disk
> surface failure was in the early 2000s. Plus I do backup...

You're lucky. Not yet this year but it's only a matter of time.

My last 3 external backup drives on my Macs died (3TB, 3TB, 2TB).

> Good choice of breakpoint.

:-)

I thought so. I have both Word 97 and Word 2003. In many ways, I
prefer 97. It works very nicely under WINE. For example, unlike any
later version, you can install all the service releases no problem.
2003 needs CrossOver Office.

> I believe that is possible in the Windows version too, just well hidden.

Not AFAIK and I looked into this at some depth up to and including
Office 2013. I confess I have not tried 2016.

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