Searching for words used in VBA code
Has anybody heard af a Windows Desktop Search "i-filter" (or any other means
for that matter) that enables search-indexing of words in VBA code ? I often make VBA "goodies" in Excel spreadsheets, but often forget in which spreadsheet a specific piece of code is stored. Normal windows search cannot find Excel spreadsheets with specific words in the VBA code. I have for this reason tried to make a habit of exporting the code to ascii files (.bas), as such files can be indexed . However it is difficult to be systematic when the *** has hit the fan, which it often do. So having Windows Desktop Search indexing words used in in Excel VBA code would be wonderful. Best regards Morten |
Searching for words used in VBA code
fwiw
i keep a master word document into which i paste all my module & worksheet codes.. then when i'm looking for something i can search the word document. that document also tells me what excel document the code is located in; however, since i have the code sitting right in front of me, i generally cut & paste from there. but you can search for a keyword quickly & easily & find out what document the macro is in. susan On Feb 21, 4:54 am, Morten Hvidberg-Knudsen <Morten Hvidberg- wrote: Has anybody heard af a Windows Desktop Search "i-filter" (or any other means for that matter) that enables search-indexing of words in VBA code ? I often make VBA "goodies" in Excel spreadsheets, but often forget in which spreadsheet a specific piece of code is stored. Normal windows search cannot find Excel spreadsheets with specific words in the VBA code. I have for this reason tried to make a habit of exporting the code to ascii files (.bas), as such files can be indexed . However it is difficult to be systematic when the *** has hit the fan, which it often do. So having Windows Desktop Search indexing words used in in Excel VBA code would be wonderful. Best regards Morten |
Searching for words used in VBA code
The VBA environment's Edit/Find command has the option to search a whole
project, so if you remember which Excel file has the code you want, open it, open VBA, open any code window, and use that option with Edit/Find. -- --Andy Smith "Morten Hvidberg-Knudsen" wrote: Has anybody heard af a Windows Desktop Search "i-filter" (or any other means for that matter) that enables search-indexing of words in VBA code ? I often make VBA "goodies" in Excel spreadsheets, but often forget in which spreadsheet a specific piece of code is stored. Normal windows search cannot find Excel spreadsheets with specific words in the VBA code. I have for this reason tried to make a habit of exporting the code to ascii files (.bas), as such files can be indexed . However it is difficult to be systematic when the *** has hit the fan, which it often do. So having Windows Desktop Search indexing words used in in Excel VBA code would be wonderful. Best regards Morten |
Searching for words used in VBA code
Hi Susan
Yes I do realize that I should work more systematically. The problem is I dont. For instance in my Outlook I should organize my mails, so that I easily could locate the important ones, and not just leaving them in the inbox . Windows Desktop Search has helped me out of the result of this mess. I had hoped there was an easy way to get WDS to locate VBA code in Excel Spreadsheets. By the way: I wonder how text in VBA code, even comments, are "scrambled" in suc a way that Windows Search (which I suppose look for bit patterns representing the search text in ASCII representation) cannot find specific words in the code. But thanks anyway Morten "Susan" wrote: fwiw i keep a master word document into which i paste all my module & worksheet codes.. then when i'm looking for something i can search the word document. that document also tells me what excel document the code is located in; however, since i have the code sitting right in front of me, i generally cut & paste from there. but you can search for a keyword quickly & easily & find out what document the macro is in. susan On Feb 21, 4:54 am, Morten Hvidberg-Knudsen <Morten Hvidberg- wrote: Has anybody heard af a Windows Desktop Search "i-filter" (or any other means for that matter) that enables search-indexing of words in VBA code ? I often make VBA "goodies" in Excel spreadsheets, but often forget in which spreadsheet a specific piece of code is stored. Normal windows search cannot find Excel spreadsheets with specific words in the VBA code. I have for this reason tried to make a habit of exporting the code to ascii files (.bas), as such files can be indexed . However it is difficult to be systematic when the *** has hit the fan, which it often do. So having Windows Desktop Search indexing words used in in Excel VBA code would be wonderful. Best regards Morten |
Searching for words used in VBA code
i didn't mean to imply how you SHOULD work. i was just offering an
idea of what i do. sorry if i offended you. susan On Feb 21, 6:05 pm, Morten Hvidberg-Knudsen wrote: Hi Susan Yes I do realize that I should work more systematically. The problem is I dont. For instance in my Outlook I should organize my mails, so that I easily could locate the important ones, and not just leaving them in the inbox . Windows Desktop Search has helped me out of the result of this mess. I had hoped there was an easy way to get WDS to locate VBA code in Excel Spreadsheets. By the way: I wonder how text in VBA code, even comments, are "scrambled" in suc a way that Windows Search (which I suppose look for bit patterns representing the search text in ASCII representation) cannot find specific words in the code. But thanks anyway Morten "Susan" wrote: fwiw i keep a master word document into which i paste all my module & worksheet codes.. then when i'm looking for something i can search the word document. that document also tells me what excel document the code is located in; however, since i have the code sitting right in front of me, i generally cut & paste from there. but you can search for a keyword quickly & easily & find out what document the macro is in. susan On Feb 21, 4:54 am, Morten Hvidberg-Knudsen <Morten Hvidberg- wrote: Has anybody heard af a Windows Desktop Search "i-filter" (or any other means for that matter) that enables search-indexing of words in VBA code ? I often make VBA "goodies" in Excel spreadsheets, but often forget in which spreadsheet a specific piece of code is stored. Normal windows search cannot find Excel spreadsheets with specific words in the VBA code. I have for this reason tried to make a habit of exporting the code to ascii files (.bas), as such files can be indexed . However it is difficult to be systematic when the *** has hit the fan, which it often do. So having Windows Desktop Search indexing words used in in Excel VBA code would be wonderful. Best regards Morten- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
Searching for words used in VBA code
i have the luxury of having sharepoint server, being an ms reseller. i export my
code and then import it into sharepoint where i can search for keywords. -- Gary "Morten Hvidberg-Knudsen" <Morten wrote in message ... Has anybody heard af a Windows Desktop Search "i-filter" (or any other means for that matter) that enables search-indexing of words in VBA code ? I often make VBA "goodies" in Excel spreadsheets, but often forget in which spreadsheet a specific piece of code is stored. Normal windows search cannot find Excel spreadsheets with specific words in the VBA code. I have for this reason tried to make a habit of exporting the code to ascii files (.bas), as such files can be indexed . However it is difficult to be systematic when the *** has hit the fan, which it often do. So having Windows Desktop Search indexing words used in in Excel VBA code would be wonderful. Best regards Morten |
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