Bought a new laptop with Windows XP........installed lotus 123 and have all
lotus 123 imported to the new computer.........but the search functions
cannot locate the files when I need to search. It works with Excel
spreadsheet but not Lotus. PLEASE HELP!!!. There was no problems with my
old computer with Window Me.

For some bizarre reason XP only searches in registered file types. See
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1206399,00.asp>
This is what you would be interested in.

The Search function relies on an internal filter to find words; file types
that don't have a defined filter won't be searched. If you find that certain
file types don't appear in the search results, you can try assigning the
plain-text filter to those types. To do this, launch Regedit from the Start
menu's Run dialog and navigate to the key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.??? (where .???
is the extension you want searched). If you don't find a subkey named
PersistentHandler, create one. Double-click on the value "(Default)" for
that subkey and set its data to {5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}.
Repeat the procedure for any other file extensions you want included.





"Lotus 123 Users" <Lotus123Users@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Bought a new laptop with Windows XP........installed lotus 123 and have
all
> lotus 123 imported to the new computer.........but the search functions
> cannot locate the files when I need to search. It works with Excel
> spreadsheet but not Lotus. PLEASE HELP!!!. There was no problems with
my
> old computer with Window Me.
>
>