Spotlight can now search in Word files!!!

[nylon]

Am I the only one that thinks that this is a huge update! I was able to search for random keywords and those Word files that had those keywords in them popped right up. Amazing!!

 

[yg17]

I was able to do that long before 10.4.6

 

[Doctor Q]

This isn't new behavior for Mac OS X 10.4.6, if that's what you mean.

Mac OS X could do spotlight searches within Word documents even before yesterday's update.

But yes it is handy.

 

[2nyRiggz]

Yup i could always search my word docs with spotlight......well if its new to you then its new right


Bless

 

[nylon]

Then how come this is listed as a new feature in 10.4.6.

 

[rdowns]

Must be an error. I haven't installed update and spotlight has always searched my Word docs. Microsoft's recent Office upgrade made Entourage emails searchable which was much appreciated.

 

[mad jew]

The technical notes for 10.4.6 mention Word integration with Spotlight. I guess it's just better in some way now. Not sure how though.

 

[CoMpX]

Spotlight always seemed to search all my files fine. So useful.

 

[AppleMatt]

If you read the detailed page about the update, you'll see that it now can index documents created in older versions of Word.

AppleMatt

 

[mad jew]

Ahh, okay, thanks for that. It's always worked for Word X. I guess earlier versions didn't work though. It's interesting this is an Apple-side update and not a Microsoft one considering it was Microsoft who updated Entourage.

 

[mkrishnan]

I wondered what they meant by that. It didn't seem to have any trouble with Word 2000, .X, 2003, or 2004. I guess, when they say "older" versions, they must mean *really* old....

*pulls out Word for Windows 1.x document*