I know, I know, I'm the only person in the world who uses Word 2004's Notebook feature. I have hundreds of documents saved with all my notes for the past year, and with finals coming up my immediate reaction when hearing that Spotlight and Word would be tied together was "Sweet!". Now having installed Tiger and settled in nicely with no serious problems, I find to my horror that although Word documents are integrated into Spotlight, Notebook files, although also .Doc files are not. I searched for phrases, words, acronyms and key terms in many of my notes, found nothing. Wanting to make I wasn't just insane I checked by copying the contents of a notebook file and pasting it in a normal Word document. I saved it to a random folder and searched spotlight for a key term, and in an instant, there it was. So now I'm more than a LITTLE devastated at this predicament, I know that Word's Notebook view isn't the best possible note taker, but it was simple and offered really good cross platform integration without any work (Read: the complicated task of resaving dozens of files as .RTFs, which arguably is no longer so painstaking due to Automator), BUT Notebook has a MUCH better implimenation (than normal Word) for on the fly indenting and bulleting and such. I’m hoping somebody here understands the guts of Tiger, Spotlight or what was involved in plugging in Word documents in Spotlight in the first place. I don’t know if there’s a solution, or even if this has been taken a look at (or maybe I’m simply the only person with a problem somehow). Thanks in advance for taking a look at this….
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