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Posted on by Gary 8
Hello,
 
I need to search a Word document for certain text.  In my flow I've saved the document to SharePoint but am getting conflicting information from Copilot on how to search for text.  I've only seen one post on this forum for the same information which contained no answers, and another post where the answers will not display correctly.
 
I already have a PDF document search that works ok, so if there's no way to search the Word doc, I could convert it to a PDF if someone can help with that instead.
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    Michael E. Gernaey Profile Picture
    Michael E. Gernaey 43,383 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at
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    Hi @Gary
     
    In that case you want to use the this method.
     
     
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    takolota1 4,890 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at
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    If you have access to Azure there is this template Azure Function App that can pull the text from a Word file & then search the output text, including with Regex.
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    Gary 8 on at
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    Thank you Michael,
     
    I'd prefer to check the Word document itself, but if I can't figure that out then I'll try the PDF conversion and mark it as an answer👍
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    Michael E. Gernaey 43,383 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at
    Searching a Word document
     
    So, you can easily convert the document to a PDF, using the Convert to PDF action within a Flow that your agent calls.
     
    It would also be how you could search your document using cognitive ai/ai actions to search for it, but that would be again calling a flow, that is either a CoPilot Flow, or a custom flow that you call from CoPilot.
     
    I do not know what your licensing is nor what your DLP policies or any weird configuration globally that would stop the above but OOB that's how you can do it.
     
    Here is an example of the conversion process
     
    If this helps to resolve your issue, if you do not mind Marking as such and maybe a like.
     
    Thanks

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