# PowerPoint presentations text not searchable

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**Category:** Tips\
**Created:** [August 10, 2009, 4:03am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/powerpoint-presentations-text-not-searchable/8001 "2009-08-10T04:03:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![carlosalberto](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@carlosalberto](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/carlosalberto)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2009, 4:03am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/powerpoint-presentations-text-not-searchable/8001/1 "2009-08-10T04:03:51Z")

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I am trying DT, and I am very impressed. I run into a problem today, though. Trying to import PPT files, I have found that some files are searchable, DT recognizes all the words and classifies them properly. But some files show 0 words, and DT doesn’t seem to be able to access any information in them. I can see the presentation with all the slides in the viewing pane, but the search engine can’t see the words…  
I will appreciate any suggestions.

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**Author:** ![cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/cgrunenberg/32/7172_2.png) [@cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/cgrunenberg)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2009, 1:28pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/powerpoint-presentations-text-not-searchable/8001/2 "2009-08-10T13:28:52Z")

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The example you’ve provided (via a support ticket) isn’t fully supported by Spotlight’s plugin for MS Office documents, the only solution is to convert the documents to a recent PowerPoint format.

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**Author:** ![system](https://devontech-discourse.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/2X/4/4e6ff70c96be2eb307a274d890bba8d71ba671b3.png) [@system](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 11:05am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/powerpoint-presentations-text-not-searchable/8001/3 "2022-01-21T11:05:38Z")

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