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Old 01-21-2014, 06:56 PM
sunalta sunalta is offline Windows 7 64bit Office 2010 64bit
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I have Word 2010 on a 64 bit ASUS computer.
I want to search for a word or phrase using windows explorer across all file formats PDF, Excel, PowerPoint.
It will only return Word Docs that have the word and not a PDF even though I know it is in a PDF that has no security.
I did this previously but now there seems to be a problem.
Is there a preference that needs to be turned on?
Any help would be much appreciated.

I went into windows explorer and then Tools - folder options - search


Then under what to search clicked on "Always search file names......
But that doesn't search the pdfs

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Old 01-22-2014, 08:00 AM
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Oops maybe someone could move this to Windows
Anyway, it has to do with the indexing options - advanced options - File types
For PDF it states "Registered IFilter is not found"
So I googled and found an adobe update.
Will try loading that and see what happens
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