Question

How can I scan a bunch of Microsoft Word (2003) documents? I am searching for a certain phrase in the documents and want to return the file names of those which contain the phrase.

A code sample would be especially helpful.

Answer 1

A VB.NET version of allclaws’ method:

Function ContainsText(ByVal fileName As String, ByVal text As String) As Boolean      Dim app As New Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application     Dim doc As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document     doc = app.Documents.Open(DirectCast(fileName, Object))      Try         Return doc.Content.Text.IndexOf(text, StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase) <> -1     Finally         app.Quit()     End Try  End Function 

Edit:

To make this work you need to add a reference to the Microsoft Word 11.0 Object Library, available on the COM tab of the Add References dialog