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10.4: Ignore deleted Word text in Spotlight searches
Authored by: phlops on May 04, '05 11:33:48AM

No no no, this is a known issue in the Word document format, if you Google for this, you'll find a trove of information. Not all deleted text remains in documents, it's a very hit and miss thing and whatever rhyme or reason there is to it is lost to everyone outside of Microsoft.

If you examine your .doc files in a plaintext editor you'll see this in action.

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/phil



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