Any way to get rid of parts of MS Word MetaData?

[lstowell]

Making these a skipword just inhibits being able do search...

I am pulling in the metadata from the MS Word plugin for search results, to help my users quickly head for articles most likely to be of interest for a search.

When doing so, MS Word [Office 2003 and newer] documents that have autofields always end up with the ugly "MERGEFORMAT" at the very beginning of the result:

\* MERGEFORMAT Article Header would be here Author: \* MERGEFORMAT author name would be here...

Is there a hack available to NOT pull in Microsoft Field Codes and yet pull in the other metadata, typically from File Properties...

[Ray]

There is currently no built-in method for filtering out Word macros such as MERGEFORMAT switches when indexing Word documents.

[lstowell]

Thanks

In that case, I'll abandon that idea and get rid of them in the output window with a bit of php or JavaScript.