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Search/index Word DOTM file content

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We are unable to or locate body and header/footer contents on Word .DOTM files using Windows search. Assume that a new iFilter wold be required to do this. A few third party search/index tools exist, but none of them can open .DOTM files.

We have adjusted all search/index options, no change in results. Does anyone have a suggestion?

Friday, April 11, 2014 7:15 PM

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do you use win7? see the thread, it maigt be helpful:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/trying-a-windows-7-search-on-all-normaldotm-file/d4283cb8-1468-4842-a1b4-d91a7b270a03

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Monday, April 14, 2014 8:23 AM
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We have tried all the suggestions. Narrowed the search down to just one local folder, containing just two files with known content, one is .dot, one is .dotm. Search never finds the dotm file using the search criteria.

Monday, April 14, 2014 7:47 PM
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I could be wrong, but I don't think Windows search lets you search the content of files. To find out for certain, you may want to ask in a Windows forum.
Stefan Blom, Microsoft Word MVP

Monday, April 14, 2014 9:37 PM