View all text from design files

SB Owens said:

My end goal is to be able to search for a string of text and then be able to tell which design file that text is present on

Write a Report that shows text, model and DGN file name.  You can write the result of a Report to a CSV or Excel file.  Once you have your Report working, use the batch processor to enumerate your DGN files.

Alternatively, adopt MaryB's suggestion, and create a VBA macro to enumerate DGN files and report text for each one.  To get you started, here's a VBA text search macro we wrote earlier.

SB Owens said:

My end goal is to be able to search for a string of text and then be able to tell which design file that text is present on

Write a Report that shows text, model and DGN file name.  You can write the result of a Report to a CSV or Excel file.  Once you have your Report working, use the batch processor to enumerate your DGN files.

Alternatively, adopt MaryB's suggestion, and create a VBA macro to enumerate DGN files and report text for each one.  To get you started, here's a VBA text search macro we wrote earlier.