The search tool already supported .DOCX and .DOCM Microsoft Word files, but old ones were not.

With this update, .DOC files are also supported.

This may sound a bit odd given how old .DOC files are, but it turns out there must be billions .DOC files within corporation walls out there and asking someone to convert a .DOC file to a .DOCX or .DOCM file only to be made compatible for searching, was not a tenable option.

If you were using the search tool so far, just download the latest version from our website. If you were not using the search tool yet, downloading the search tool comes with this feature.

Other than actual text, objects that are searched for in .DOC files are : header/footer, comments and shapes. When a match is found, the search tool makes it possible to go to the actual match in the .DOC file in question in Word itself, excepts for a match in comments (Microsoft Word does not make this possible programmatically).