File Search Assistant

It seems like everybody has lost files at least ones in his life. Sure, these files are not physically lost but they are hidden in a folder which you cannot find among hundreds of similar directories. Searching for files can be very painful, of course literally speaking. To be serious, file search process can be very important as losing some files may cost you a career.

You have probably noticed that volumes of hard drives are constantly increasing. This is explained by emergence of new file types (for instance Blue-Ray) and development of the internet as it became very easy to share huge files. Thus, searching for a file in a 20GB hard drive and 500GB disc are VERY different searches, especially if your 500GB hard drive is full of files.

However, you should not get upset if you tend to lose files. All you need is a reliable text search tool. Of course, Windows offers own search system, but sometimes it proves to be ineffective, especially if you possess little information on the missing file. It goes without saying that manual search is not a proper way to look for missing files as you can waste your entire day and find nothing.

Pay your attention to File Search Assistance. At a fist glance, the program will look simple to you, perhaps too simple. But having spent an hour with File Search Assistance you will understand that this file search software can do a lot of things. Interesting, huh? Then keep reading.

File Search Assistant is a reliable text search tool

Choose the best text search tool

File Search Assistance is a very powerful text search tool as it looks for key words not only in the file names but also inside the files. Moreover, File Search Assistance can open such file types as MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, HTML pages, Open Office files, Adobe Acrobat docs, multimedia and picture files (it looks for keywords in tags).

Having got the results you have an opportunity to preview them. Why would you need it? Imagine that you have got 20 relevant results, i.e. 20 text files that contain specified key words. Which one do you need? With preview option you do not have to open each file. Just click on the file in the list of results and have a look at the context in which keywords are used.

You can save and load search sessions as well as save search results in the report.

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It is difficult to find an office clerk who does not use MS Office in his or her work. Indeed, this family of products from Microsoft has become a must in every office and home computer. While office managers and secretaries mostly use MS Word, Excel is designed for those who work with number. Thus, xls files are used to make pricelists, accounting reports, all sort of financial documents etc. Imagine what problems an accountant might have if he loses Excel file or files with important figures!

As known most pricelists are made in xls format. Spreadsheets are downloaded to servers and thus prices are updated online. Losing documents is very common as sometimes we forget file locations. It is not easy to find missing Excel files, especially if you do not know much about them.

To solve such a problem, use File Search Assistant which can correctly open Excel docs and look for the keywords inside the files. The firs thing that will surprise you when you start using File Search Assistant is that the program is really very simple. However, this simplicity should not make you think that File Search Assistant will not solve its tasks.

First of all, it needs mentioning that File Search Assistant has converters which enables the program opening certain file types and thus look for keyword inside the docs. File Search Assistant can open MS Office documents, (including Excel and PowerPoint), HTML pages, Open Office files and Adobe Acrobat docs.

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Use FSA to search excel files

When you have search result listed, you can preview any of them by clicking on a file. Preview function will save your time as you do not have to open file by file to make sure this is exactly the document you need. It may happen that you have 20 documents that fit into search criteria.

In case you possess additional information on the files then you can use additional search criteria. They are search by size, date and mask. Let’s review each criterion.

Search by size is only then helpful when you know approximate size of the missing files. Thus, for instance, if you are sure that the files you are looking for a particularly large or small (or maybe you know exact file size) then search by size option will certainly narrow search results.

Search by date is helpful when you know approximate date when the missing files were created, modified or accessed.

Search by mask is looking for missing file of particular type or types.

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Those professionals who work with huge volumes of information (texts, documents etc) often face a problem of losing files. If you are a translator, copywriter, office manager of a typical office clerk then your computer must be full of files, mostly text files. These are agreements, draft contracts, advertising proposals, personal and business correspondence, manuals, business offers, guides and how-to tutorials etc. With such enormous amount of information it is very simple to lose files. Sure, you know that they are hidden at some folder but you do not know in which.

If you choose to look for files by yourself then you are risking to spend your entire day at PC. As a result you may find nothing and the whole day will be wasted. This is not the way modern business is done. What to do if you have 15 minutes to find the files as your business partners urgently need it? What is there are dozens of similar files in your PC and Windows search will give you the list, while you will have to open every file to see if this is the one you need?

Do not worry! All you have to do is just to get yourself File Search Assistant. Unlike other file search systems File Search Assistant is cheap, simple but at the same time extremely effective and convenient.

File Search Assistant is a simple but reliable text search engine

Text search tasks are common in every modern office

File Search Assistant is indeed a simple program. However, this should not make you think that is it ineffective. Developers from AKS-LABS always try to make complex thing simpler. Thus, even if you are an inexperienced PC user you will not need much time to learn what the program can do.

One of the key advantages of File Search Assistant is preview feature. Thus, if the program has compiled a list with 20 results you can preview each file to make sure this is the document you have been looking for. In preview mode you have an opportunity of seeing context in which keywords (marked red, by the way) are used.

File Search Assistant can look for key words not only in the file names but also in the texts. The program has special converter which make it possible to open such file types as MS Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Open Office files, PDF extension (popular in offices Adobe Acrobat) and even HTML pages.

Search sessions can be saved and restored, while search results may be saved in the report.

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Experienced office managers and office clerks as well as secretaries know from their experience how difficult it may be to find missing documents. If you remember only a few words from the document contents it will be difficult for you to find this missing doc. What if you have two large hard drives? What if this file can be stored at another computer in the LAN?

Windows search tool can be effective if you know exact file name and file type. But with minimum information you should use automated file search systems. The market is full of different file search solutions. Some of them are very expensive while others can be used only by professional IT specialists.

File Search Assistant is a program with the best price/quality ratio. Besides, this software is really easy to use. If you are an inexperienced PC user, you will master File Search Assistant within an hour or so.

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Use FSA to search in text

Let’s help potential users of File Search Assistant by reviewing the program’s main features.

1. File Search Assistant has a Help menu and file search wizard which will be helpful for those with little experience in computers. The wizard will step by step guide you through search process.
2. File Search Assistant has several important features which make this program simple but effective at the same time. Among the key features we should definitely name case sensitivity, a series of converters which help File Search Assistant open such file types as MS Office docs, Open Office files pdf extensions etc. Password manager will save your time as File Search Assistant will enter all the passwords for you. It is possible to search for files by date and size. Thus, if you possess information as to size of the document or the date it was created you should definitely use search by size and date option which will narrow search results.
3. Search by mask option will also narrow results as File Search Assistant will look for a particular file type or types. Besides, you can create own set of file types to be searched for (e.g. doc and exe files).
4. With File Search Assistant you will have an opportunity to preview text files, i.e. see the context in which your key words are used. Thus, you won’t have to manually open all the found files.
5. File Search Assistant will draw a report with search results.

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