2007 .ppt not being indexed

[Ray]

You should also make sure you have the Office 2007 plugin installed, which provides support for indexing .docx, .pptx, and .xlsx file formats.

Also confirm that under "Configure"->"Scan options", you have setup ".pptx" to be indexed as an "Office 2007 file" file type. And NOT as "Binary (filename only)" file type.

[David]

Do you have a file you can share with us, so we can look at it in more detail.

Did you check the settings in the "indexing options" configuration window to make sure you are indexing page content and meta data.

[grahamtinley]

The file is not locked, but is a 2007 (yes three years old .ppt file).

When are we going to be able to spider three year old files?

Found the answer, not in the forum, but in support....

Made a pptx file and ran the spider again, no error regarding the file in the log, but words in the pptx are not being shown in the results.

Search results for: *.pptx

2 results found.
CQC-registration.pptx
... CQC-registration.pptx ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 9 - 30 Sep 2010 - 4,243k - URL: http://www.****re.org.uk/intranet/presentations/CQC-registration.pptx
Ivan-Wass.pptx
... Ivan-Wass.pptx ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 9 - 30 Sep 2010 - 309k - URL: http://www.****re.org.uk/intranet/presentations/Ivan-Wass.pptx

I converted the files to .odp and added the extension to the formats section, spidered again.

Search results for: *.odp

2 results found.
CQC-registration.odp
... CQC-registration.odp ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 9 - 30 Sep 2010 - 4,296k - URL: http://www.****re.org.uk/intranet/presentations/CQC-registration.odp
Ivan-Wass.odp
... Ivan-Wass.odp ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 9 - 30 Sep 2010 - 386k - URL: http://www.****re.org.uk/intranet/presentations/Ivan-Wass.odp

However, still no results for search text from these files.

Here's a link to a small pptx file http://www.emcare.org.uk/Ivan-Wass.pptx

When you say meta data, do you mean the Dublin Core meta data? Then no, that wasn't checked. I've checked it now, ran the indexer with the pages now linking again to the pptx files.

The plugin I've used is your all-in-one plugin, it seems to spider other ppt files easily.

Yes, the setting is that under "Configure"->"Scan options", you have setup ".pptx" to be indexed as an "Office 2007 file" file type.