Windows Vista and...

Windows 7 Search & Powerpoint files

•

Join Date: Oct 2007

Posts: 5

Reputation: philetus is an unknown quantity at this point

Solved Threads: 0

philetus

Offline

Newbie Poster

Windows 7 Search & Powerpoint files

Nov 3rd, 2009

I'm running the evaluation copy,Build 7100.
I have a file:...weekly/(lots of .ppt files).
and I have tweaked all the settings for search, indexed everything, copied the file into My Computer,shared, and indexed the source backup drive.
The files were saved in XP from Office 2000.
Search can not find or display the .ppt files or their contents.
If I navigate manually, they are there.
Any ideas?
Bug in the evaluation copy?

•

Join Date: Apr 2008

Posts: 1,339

Reputation: Bob_180_Bob has a little shameless behaviour in the past

Solved Threads: 88

Bob_180_Bob Bob_180_Bob is offline

Offline

Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

Nov 3rd, 2009

Hi,
What is navigate manually? Do you mean you click "open" and then select the drive/partition, file and locate the file that way, and powerpoint can then see the file?
If that is the case, create a new powerpoint file (just 1 page with 1 word is enough) and click "save" name it and then look in the location where it was to go and see if it is there. If it is you have a problem somewhere (OS or Office). If it is not there, then you are the problem with your allocation of file location.

BACK-UP.........Try one of the simple solutions first........and BACK-UP......
MAKE YOUR OWN ULTIMATE BOOT CD to BOOT and REPAIR WINDOWS.
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html
I once thought I was wrong but it turned out I was mistaken
Bob,