File Confusion

This is my fifth Mac and each time I have moved all my files forward to the newer Mac. Unfortunately although all my files have moved successfully, they are scattered all over the place. Some of my Word, Text, Excel and PowerPoint files are in the document folder but others have been saved to the application folder and some have been saved to some really unusual places. This is also because 4 people also share the Mac.
Is there an application that will help organize the files so that can all be place in the same folder.
Thanks

Richard,
There's no specific application I am aware of that can do this, but there are certainly methods one can use to do it oneself.
The first that comes to mind is to use Spotlight to search for all documents of a given type (or with ".doc," ".docx" in the name or extension, etc.). Items found through this search can be dragged from the results window directly to a folder one would create for this purpose.
Wouldn't this do the trick?
Scott

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