I effect a Content search for the string "Bonnie" and am rewarded with forty documents in MSWord97.
I have right-clicked on the report's column headings and chosen "Add Column".
From the left pane I have chosen "content".
I scroll down the right-pane and do not find KWIC.
Is there a way for me to display the "content:Bonnie" text of found files?
The foundations of my search:
(1) In the supermarket today I met a lady I knew, but had forgotten her name. One hour later she rolled up at my home to collect gooseberry bushes and daffodils.
(2) I wreaked my brains but could NOT remember her name.
(3) I could remember the name of her dog that I dog-sat twice a few years ago.
(4) Her dog's name is "Maggie", so I searched my monthly diaries (6.5 years so 4,000+ documents) for "maggie" but couldn't find it.
(5) That same year in the fall, I dog-sat "Bonnie", and I could find "Bonnie".
(6) Since I dog-sat Maggie at the same time, the documents with "Bonnie" should also describe my sitting "maggie".
(7) And THAT should lead me to this lady's name.
In typing all that in I have remembered that the dog's name was NOT spelt "maggie", but was something like "megan", without the "n"; still not useful to me.
Right now I reason that if the forty results were accompanied by a column showing, say, thirty characters each side of "Bonnie", then that would help me use my eyes/brain to narrow down the results.
Thanks for any tips
Chris
Statistics: Posted by ChrisGreaves — Thu Aug 28, 2025 4:53 pm
