| Re: Indexing footnotes in Word [message #499 is a reply to message #498] |
Thu, 16 March 2017 11:54   |
Jo Duflou
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Registered: March 2017
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Thanks- I'll need to have a look over the next couple of days when I get back to the office. Will keep you updated.
Regards,
Jo
> On 16 Mar 2017, at 9:40 pm, FoxTrot Engineering wrote:
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> Jo Duflou wrote:
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>> When
>> the text is in the body of my doc, that document is indexed both for the
>> DOCX file and the PDF file. However, if the word is only in a footnote,
>> the only index entry is in the PDF file.
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> FoxTrot uses Spotlight's metadata importers to extract text from files to index. At least two different metadata importers can handle .docx files: "Microsoft Office.mdimporter" (which is bundled with macOS, and is NOT part of Office or Word), and "RichText.mdimporter".
> The first one should handle footnotes, as far as I can tell, but the second one does not.
> The first one is located in /Library/Spotlight, and the second one in /System/Library/Spotlight.
> As the metadata importers are located in full path alphabetical order, docx files should be handle by Microsoft Office importer, so footnotes should be handled.
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> Did you have manually disable "Microsoft Office" importer? You can manually enable/disable some importers in FoxTrot by pressing the command and option keys while launching FoxTrot, then checking "manage third-party metadata importers".
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> If not, can you copy and paste the following command to a Terminal.app window?
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> mdimport -L
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> does "/Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Office.mdimporter" appear in the list?
> Maybe another third-party importer could handle your .docx files?
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