Google to the Rescue – Again

I am my own worst nightmare. Do as I say, not as I do.

I have more than a few files on my computer. Maybe I have 80,000 or more. I really have never counted them.

Recently, I was looking for a document that I had downloaded from the web. I liked the format that the author had used for one part of the document. I wanted to model one of my documents after his format. It was important to me that I only modeled it, and that I didn’t copy it.
I had printed out the page that I like and now I was interested in how the rest of the document looked. The problem was, of course, I didn’t have a clue as to where the document was on my hard drive or, what the name of it was.

Google rescued me. I had downloaded Google Desktop a while back. I never installed it though. Now I thought might be a good time to see what it could do for me.

I installed the Google desktop program and it prompted me to allow it to index my documents on my hard drive. I decided to let it do it’s magic and left my computer running the indexing portion of the program.

I returned a few hours later, and the indexing was complete. I took a phrase for the printed sample I had and entered it into the search bar. I found the source document in about 2 seconds. I was able to review the document and then create my own document by modeling the format, without copying.

Google saved the day – again!


Let me know what you think,


Marc