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Html – Opening large amount of docx files in one window, and searching through all of them

I have lots of docx files that I want to open in one window, word can only open multiple files in separate windows which is just pathetic.
The only manageable way I know of is windows file explorer, but then I have to wait for MS word to open 20 files and operate through 20 Word windows..

< I think I should mention that the files I have are quite complex with markups, etc. >

I came up with a few ideas:

  1. Converting the files to pdf helps, adobe reader can open multiple files, but it is far from ideal, there is no good search tool to go through all the files at once, it does not show proper file tree.

  2. Other way is to convert the files to html, then I can open them in VSCode. The file explorer there is great, search function works okay, but:
    a. docx does not convert to html as nicely as to pdf (the files are not meant for webview).
    b. to make things worse html extensions for vs code are not too great.

Is there any better way I am missing, maybe there is a nicer format I could convert to so that VS code can handle it properly?

If not is there any third-party office tool that can handle directories with nested folders full of docx files?

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    The simple way to show all documents with the word "Hello" is at top level dir enter *.docx hello or *.pdf hello and all the contents can be seen as big as preview icons allow. The iFilters for DocX etc. and PDF are robust compared to in the past.

    Search all indexed files for *.pdf "welcome to" "world!"

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    Windows Search index is about as fast as it gets (which for any big corpus will be slow)

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    maybe you can use application nitro pdf pro to join all docx or convert all docx to pdf, and with nitro pro you can easy edited your pdf, if you use nitro standart you can’t do anything what i say because, nitro standart just to open pdf file.

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