Dreamweaver 8 Extended Find

I have been a big user of Homesite and am trying to migrate
over to Dreamweaver 8.
I am having troubles with the 'Find" of Dreamweaver 8.
Homesite made it easy to search a folder and subfolders, but I
cannot get that to work with DW8. I specify a folder to search in
but it does not find text which I know is in the files.
any idea of what I might be doing wrong?
Thanks for any and all help/comments/suggestions.
Russ

I don't know how you are doing the search. Can you give us a
step-by-step
rendition?
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"Russ" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:ekn383$7v1$[email protected]..
>I have been a big user of Homesite and am trying to
migrate over to
>Dreamweaver
> 8.
>
> I am having troubles with the 'Find" of Dreamweaver 8.
Homesite made it
> easy
> to search a folder and subfolders, but I cannot get that
to work with DW8.
> I
> specify a folder to search in but it does not find text
which I know is in
> the
> files.
>
> any idea of what I might be doing wrong?
>
> Thanks for any and all help/comments/suggestions.
> Russ
>

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"mpf1" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I have an intranet that I put together in Dreamweaver
using templates.
> Originally, all the links between the pages were
document-relative, and
> the
> site was defined as just the basic folder containing all
the intranet
> pages and
> related documents. It was easy to make new pages ; just
open a new
> document
> using the template I'd created.
>
> A co-worker suggested I make a few modifications to the
site--namely, make
> the
> links root-relative, and redefine the site based our
office intranet test
> server (our "Q: drive"), instead of simply using the
folder itself, which
> is
> buried several layers deep on the Q: drive. After
redefining the site,
> however,
> I can no longer get Dreamweaver to acknowledge or find
my template. The
> intranet site as a whole still works, and it still uses
the template, but
> when
> creating a new document, I can't get dreamweaver to find
my template so
> that I
> might apply it to a new document.
>
> Does Dreamweaver by default look in a specific location
for a Template
> folder?
> Can I designate where I'd like it to look for it?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated,
>
> Michael
>

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quote:
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