How do I make powershell search a Word document for wildcards and return the word it found?

Question

I am searching a very large amount of Word documents (5000) for a very large number of strings (3000). I know how to do this in a Powershell script, but it takes an extreme

Answer 1

Instead of using Word's wildcard searching why not just use a Powershell regex on all of the text in the document. Something like this:

if ($document.Content.Text -match "\b$($findText)\w+\b") 
{ 
  $docName = $doc.Name
  "$($matches[0])`t$docName" | Out-File -append $outputPath   
}