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Spotlight and Office 2008
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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I have a problem... I'm sitting on an bunch of Office 2008 files, word documents, presentations... etc., that are essentially invisible to Spotlight from Office 2008... i.e. .pptx, .docx...
Is there any way to fix this? anyone know what's causing this?
It really becomes a productivity handicap when one has to sit there for an hour looking for a file that could have otherwise been found by a quick search...
Thanks
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Join Date: Mar 2000
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Sorry, in advance for the weak response...
I just created a few docx and Spotlight promptly found them. So I don't think it is necessarily a µS/Spotlight issue.
So just to be on the safe side, have you checked your Spotlight settings to ensure Documents and such are enabled, and that somehow your source volume has not been included in the Privacy pane?
Also, you might try reindexing Spotlight.
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Harv
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Are you having trouble finding the files by name or contents?
If by name you need to reindex.
If by contents you need to add the Office 2008 XML formats to the indexed types.
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Finding the contents inside them...
how do I add the office 2008 xml format to the indexed types?
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Anyone know of an easier way to do this?
I have a crapload of Powerpoint presentations for a business law class I'm taking; I download them in .ppt, but convert them to .pptx when saving for convenience.
I've just noticed that when I search for terms using Spotlight, it only picks up the terms in the .ppt versions. What a pain.
greg
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My question would be is "How is converting to pptx convenient?" Just leave them as ppt. More compatible, and as you've found, searchable.
Steve
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There is absolutely nothing convenient about any of the 'x' versions of the Office file formats and they will only cause you compatibility headaches if you persist with them. Change your preferences (you have to do it separately in each app) to always save in the old formats.
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