Hi, Justin.

Thanks.

I'm an accountant, not a programmer, and long-retired at that. I'm no
stranger to the Registry, but I would be much more comfy if Microsoft's
programmers could handle this IFilter (or whatever is needed). This should
be an in-house job, it seems to me, because a Microsoft Search program
should certainly be able to find information in a file created by a
Microsoft application (Publisher) and stored in a Microsoft-created format
..pub file. Especially since the Search ability is so highly touted as one
of the major reasons to use Vista. Search should certainly be able to find
data in all of Microsoft's own data file formats. Shouldn't it?

Please let us all know what you learn when you get answers back from the
team.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)

"Justin Martin [MSFT]" <JustinMartinMSFT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:0D18957A-91CA-412E-B91C-510F9089756F@microsoft.com...
> I've sent your questions to the team. You'd need to register an IFilter
> (PersistentHandler) for the .pub entry under HKCR. Look at
> HKCR\.doc\PersistentHandler for an example. I'm not sure if there is an
> IFilter for this file format in the wild somewhere or if the one we use
> in-box for doc files would work. You can mess around with it to see if
> you
> can get it to work yourself, or hopefully someone from the Office IFilter
> team will respond shortly.
>
> "R. C. White" wrote:
>
>> Hi, Justin.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> And a new/old item that might belong in a new thread, but since I have
>> your
>> attention here...
>>
>> Why doesn't Search index .pub files? After a lot of griping and
>> complaining
>> (and searching), I finally got it fixed so that I could find names in
>> files
>> of the weekly Rotary newsletter that I "Published" for 3 years. Then,
>> last
>> week, some unrelated computer glitch that I still don't understand caused
>> Chkdsk to wipe out the dedicated partition where I kept my Index.
>> Indexing
>> Options has now rebuilt my Index, but it is much smaller; apparently I
>> haven't yet included nearly as many locations as I did a year ago. But I
>> DO
>> again include the folder with all those .pub files, and I've set Search
>> for
>> the .pub extension to search by both title and content.
>>
>> But I've forgotten where I got that .pub fix and haven't had time to
>> Search
>> for it yet. So I have two questions for your Team:
>> 1. Do you have a guess as to which fix I might have used before to
>> search inside .pub files?
>> 2. Will Search 4 handle .pub files without a fix?
>>
>> Thanks again, Justin. It helps A LOT to know that someone on the Team is
>> reading and (at least sometimes) responding to messages here. ;<)
>>
>> RC
>>
>> "Justin Martin [MSFT]" <JustinMartinMSFT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
>> in
>> message news:1A279453-127A-4508-80A2-3042B2748C1F@microsoft.com...
>> > I'll pass the feedback along to the design team. I feel the pain as
>> > well.
>> >
>> > "R. C. White" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi, Justin.
>> >>
>> >> Welcome to the newsgroup! ;<)
>> >>
>> >> > The progress bar was a design decision made by the program
>> >> > management
>> >> > team.
>> >> > It does not show progress,
>> >>
>> <SNIP>
>> >> >
>> >> > Hope this helps,
>> >> > Justin
>> >> >
>> >> > PS - I'm going to try to do a better job of popping into the
>> >> > newsgroup
>> >> > now
>> >> > and then to see if there is anything that needs answering.