Are there any functions or 3rd party programs that would allow me to search for text within an individual window?
I am using a program that generates 1000's of pieces of data and information, and it has no search function.
Is there any thing out there that would do this?
Or try typing Ctrl-F into the program, sometimes that brings up a search function.
So this is a custom program (Not like using explorer or anything?) that is outputting tons of text in a long scrolling window?
If the program has no logging feature, which you could search the resulting log file in notepad or something. I would try to copy/paste the output window text into notepad and search it there.
I don't know of any addon that will arbitratily search text in just any window of any program. Though it sounds possible to write such a thing :) Would have been pretty easy on XP, may be much more difficult on 7.
Unfortunately, I cannot even ctrl-a to select all. Even if I could i think that way would take longer, for what I am trying to do.
It is a program specifically engineered for what we do at work.
Essentially there are 1000's of columns and rows, and I need to find certain columns and/or rows. Sometimes it takes 5-10 minutes just to locate, I am trying to get this down to 1-5 secs (if I had a search within a window, function).
I saw an Apple (ick) program that allowed to search within an actual window itself. Unfortunately I cannot find a similar program for Windows.
Thanks for your reply and any following thoughts/ideas.
in most programs, you can click on a column, and that will sort alphabetically under that column, making things easier to find..
i suppose it all depends on how the software was written in the first place.
a lengthy painful workaround would be to take screenshots, then ocr them...
No one is left that can modify the app to add a search function? :)
Actually I would love to have an external window text/list capture/search utility. Could grab lists of files from explorer for example, without having to drop to the command line to get the sameinfo into a text file :)
You may need to add the application via the Listary options (just getting used to it myself).
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