Define File type

[Morvyn Finch]

In the find and replace option, is it possible to dictate to only look in certain files within a folder. eg, doc or PDF, rather than everything in the folder.

[Mark Olson]

@Morvyn-Finch

Yes, you can restrict the files you want using the Filters field, as described in this documentation .

That said, you are most likely going to be very disappointed if you try to search PDFs or Word documents with Notepad++, because Notepad++ is a text editor, not a word processor.

If you want to search all kinds of documents (not just text documents), I recommend dnGrep , a free and open-source file searching tool. That said, further discussion of dnGrep would be off-topic for this forum.