Word and WPS are the most commonly used office applications in normal work, so there are often files that stay in the system. So, after a lapse of days, you will be faced with numerous file formats and thousands of files. When you need to find a specific file on a certain day, you will have a headache. How can you find so many files? Don't worry, this article will show you how to quickly find the files you need, saving you time and improving your productivity. Searching in Windows 9x Take Windows98 as an example, open the Explorer, and then execute the "Tools → Find → File or Folder" command, enter the name of the document you are going to query in the "Name" field of the dialog box. Then select the drive letter you want to query in the "Search" list. You can also choose "My Computer" to search and query all. In Windows2000/XP search for Windows XP system as an example, click the "Start → Search" button, a search wizard pops up, where you can select the options you want to search (as shown in Figure 1), we select "all files and folders" In the pop-up dialog box, we can make detailed file search settings, such as file name, file containing words, file path, click the "More advanced options" button, we can also make settings such as whether to distinguish between uppercase and lowercase. When you're done, click the "Search" button and for a while you will see the search results in the display box on the right. Figure 1 Search option hidden file search By default, Windows XP does not search for hidden files and folders, even if "Show all files and folders" is not available, the solution is actually very simple, we click on the above mentioned The "Search for hidden files and folders" check box is displayed in the dialog box that pops up in the "More Advanced Options" button. Tip: You can also open the "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer" branch by modifying the registry. In the right window, find the DWord value "SearchHidden" and set its value to "1". Searching for compressed files Windows XP supports searching for compressed files in ZIP format, but it does not catch cold with compressed files in other formats. ArchivePeek is a small file search tool that can search for files in various compressed packages such as ZIP, RAR, LZH, ARJ, PAK, ARC, TAR, SQZ, HYP, WAD and GRP, as well as search for files in subfolders. Support wildcards, search results can be printed, saved as Html or text files. Execute the Arepeek.exe program. Select the drive and folder you want to search for, enter the file name to be searched, and click "Start Search". Tip: ArchivePeek can't search the text contained in the file, and ZipScan can do this, and it supports ZIP, CAB, JAR multiple compression formats. Searching for web pages and database files I don't know if you need to search for binary, web, database and other types of files at work. If so, SuperTextSearch can meet your requirements, and it also supports searching by conditional expressions. The main interface of the program running is shown in Figure 2. In the Searchfor column, we can input conditional expressions for accurate file lookup. In addition, the software provides lookups over a period of time, as well as support for ZIP, CAB, and RAR archive lookups. After finding more files in the CD, we will inevitably back up many files. When there are more discs, we can imagine how difficult it is to find a file from hundreds of discs. Search one by one. Don't worry, WhereIsIt can do the job. It is one of the best media categorization software that creates a quick image of your floppy disk, hard drive, CD and removable drive, and stores the data in a category for future reference. Then you can find, browse, locate, and compare. Support FAT, VFAT, FAT32, CDFS and NTFS, support ZIP, RAR, ARJ, CAB and other compressed file formats. You can make a quick image for each of your discs. When you find the file, you can look it up directly in WhereIsIt. When you find it, you will know which disc the file is on, and then look for it from your CD. It's much more convenient to get the files you need. Find Word and WPS files Jinshan WPSOffice and MSOffice, as the two most popular office software in China, have brought great convenience to our work. In the daily office process, we often need to find some files with specified content, but WPS and MSOffice files are all formatted files. Because of the file encoding relationship, most of the documents cannot be directly used by the file search tool provided by the operating system. Search. WPS file searcher is specially for searching WPS format files. Enter the content you want to find in “Find Content”, select the directory to be searched in “Start Directory”, click “Search” button to quickly find what you need. The WPS file is gone. Tip: The WPS file searcher can also find Word files, but the Microsoft Word file search engine is designed to search for Word files more quickly and conveniently. Searching for Files in Batches The Digital Dragon Batch File Finder can search for files in the file name list in batches, and then you can selectively copy these search results to a specific folder. If you need to search for files in batches in your daily office, this software is very useful for you.