XYplorer Beta Club

I ran a search in a directory that has .txt files, excel documents,PDFs and Microsoft Word docs with .docx extension (MS Word 2016).

The "content search" does find a string in the .txt file and in an excel document but didn't find it in the Word .docx ones.

I ran several similar searches testing different type of contents that were clearly and obviously in the .docx files but what I get is always "the view is empty" serach result.

I tried this using both, the quicksearch (F3) and the form search (F12) - the results are always the same.

So, I don't know if this is the right section to post this because I cannot tell whether this is a "bug" or my lack of understanding on how the search work.

Pls enlighten me. Thanks.

Select one of those DOCX files in the file list, then run either of these script lines through the XYplorer address bar (paste there and press ENTER): Does any of them or both return text?

DOCX files are searched for text content fine here.
For my system without a Word installation the following iFilter is used:
WordpadFilter.dll Wordpad DOCX Filter WordPad Search Filters 10.0.22000.653 (WinBuild.160101.0800) 10.0.22000.653 Microsoft Corporation C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories\WordpadFilter.dll {698A4FFC-63A3-4E70-8F00-376AD29363FB} {3037B4CD-A40B-401B-B676-2017EE8FAFF4} 05.06.2021 15:11:04

To answer the admin question:

the code below returnes the entire content of the docx file on focus:

text extracttext(<curitem>, 64, 1); //64-bit; suppress IFilter errors

The first code returns an empty window.

In that case you should tick this box: Configuration | Other | Shell Integration | 64-bit Windows | Use 64-bit IFilters for content search

I did and content search works for MS Word docs now.

Thank you.