Wanyword 5.00 - Free Download

Who needs WanyWord and why?

If you merely need to search for two words or word combinations within a few files or directories, you don't need WanyWord. Windows 9x/Me/2000/XP's built-in search program will do the job. But if this is not enough, if you must find not just the haystack but also the needle in it and want to search for words within a sentence, a line or a page, WanyWord is is all you need (but read about the COMPETITORS).
If you want to study the Bible or Shakespeare, there are CD-ROMs with search programs. But those programs can only be used for the text(s) on those CD-ROMs. WanyWord can be used for any text anywhere and by anybody. There are no copyright problems. Schools and libraries with small or nonexistent budgets may therefore find it of interest.
Also if the database program you use to store odds and ends is not quite what you want, WanyWord is worth a look. A number of freeform database programs can store odds and ends, the problem is that they assume that you think and work like the programmers who wrote them. If you do, look no further, you are in luck. If not, WanyWord may be what you need, for WanyWord does not assume anything about your little grey cells or your work habits. It simply assumes that there is text (preferably ASCII, RTF or HTM) and that it is found in a file, in a page, in a line or within a sentence. WanyWord can find text within any kind of file (except compressed file other than ZIP) but it can only show ASCII, RTF and HTM, Open Office text and Spread sheets and to some degree XML (version 5.00 will be better with XML). It is however possible to start an appropiate viewer/editor from within WanyWord and WanyWord understands OLE.
WanyWord understands UNIX/LINUX, MacIntosh anmd Windows, that it, it understands the End-of-Lines. I don't have a MacIntosh and as a penguin I am a beginner. So don't trust me here.