How to search for text in a notepad document (please read)

I have around 50-60 folders that all contain notepad documents with text inside of them. Lets say one of the folders contains a notepad document with the text "popcorn". How might I find that particular folder or notepad document (either one. doesn't matter) that contains "popcorn" withjout manually going through every folder/document to find the one with "popcorn"?

This should help you understand if the above wasn't understandable:

Each folder goes like this:
10-12-13 (the date the folder was created)>10-12-13 Pictures (sub folder) and the notepad document. To clarify, the main folder 10-12-13 contains a sub folder and the notepad document. Now we are back to "popcorn". Say i want to find a folder/notepad document with the text "popcorn" in it. How would i do that without manually going through every folder and notepad document?

Kari said:

Hi, welcome to the Seven Forums.

Here's how:

• Let's say you have the main folder named 2013, containing subfolders for each month (JAN through DEC), and these subfolders in their turn subfolders for each day
• Open Windows Explorer showing the content of the main folder 2013
• Windows Search includes now the folder 2013 and all its subfolders (Search always searches the folder open in Explorer and everything underneath it)
• Type your search term to Search (top right), telling the Search it should search for file content:
  
  Code:

  content:popcorn

• The search filter content:search term tells the Search to search the content of all files in all files in current folder and all its subfolders

Read more:

• Windows Search - Configure and Use
• Search - Find More with Filters and Operators

Kari

Thank you for the response.
Say one text document includes the text "MSC MELLISA". I type "content:MSC MELLISA" (it comes up with nothing) and I know it IS capitalized in the text document. I then tried "content:MSCMELLISA" still no luck. I then tried plain MSC, and that worked but i have multiple text documents with MSC in it..

Kari said:

Try the AND operator:

Code:

content:MSC AND content:Mellisa

Notice that all search operators (AND, OR, NOT) must be in capital letters! (See the Part 3: Operators in tutorial Search - Find More with Filters and Operators)

Kari

Well i put in plain content:mellisa and no luck... guess i spelled it wrong in the text document itself or something.. because this code works for other keywords.
Thanks Kari