| Re: Indexing footnotes in Word [message #498 is a reply to message #497] |
Thu, 16 March 2017 11:40   |
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Jo Duflou wrote:
> 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.
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.
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".
If not, can you copy and paste the following command to a Terminal.app window?
mdimport -L
does "/Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Office.mdimporter" appear in the list?
Maybe another third-party importer could handle your .docx files?
Jérôme - CTM Engineering
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