About Find Fast

Find Fast builds indexes to speed the process of finding documents from the Open dialog box in any Microsoft Office program and from Microsoft Outlook. Find Fast indexes that are located on Microsoft Windows NT Server can also be used by Office WebSearch. When Find Fast is installed with Office, it automatically creates an index on each local drive of your computer to cover all of your Office documents. Find Fast indexes are not created on removable drives or read-only media, such as CD-ROM drives. Once created, an index is automatically updated, so you don't need to do anything to take advantage of faster searching.

If you want to create an index for a network folder or change an existing index, you can double-click Find Fast in the Microsoft Windows Control Panel. Information for each indexing task is displayed, including the drive, share, and folder location of the indexed documents, and the date the index was last updated. You can view additional details about a Find Fast index, such as the number of documents indexed and the size of the index, by clicking Information in the Update Index dialog box (Index menu).

For more information about creating, deleting, and updating indexes using Find Fast, click Help in the Find Fast dialog box.