Searchable File Formats

Article Number:040690

You can search the content of attached files in the following formats.

Microsoft Word

Windows
Word 97 / 98 / 2000 / 2002 (XP) / 2003 / 2007 / 2010 / 2013 / 2016 / 2019 / 2021
macOS
Word 98 / 2001 / 2004 / 2008 / 2011 / 2016 / 2019 / 2021 for Mac

Microsoft Excel

Windows
Excel 97 / 2000 / 2002 (XP) / 2003 / 2007 / 2010 / 2013 / 2016 / 2019 / 2021
macOS
Excel 98 / 2001 / 2004 / 2008 / 2011 / 2016 / 2019 / 2021 for Mac

Microsoft PowerPoint

Windows
PowerPoint 97 / 2000 / 2002 (XP) / 2003 / 2007 / 2010 / 2013 / 2016 / 2019 / 2021
macOS
PowerPoint 98 / 2001 / 2004 / 2008 / 2011 / 2016 / 2019 / 2021 for Mac

Microsoft Visio

Visio 2002 (XP) / 2003 / 2007 / 2010 / 2013 / 2016 / 2019 / 2021

ODF

Versions
1.1 / 1.2
File types
Writer (document file) / Calc (spreadsheet file) / Impress (presentation file)

OpenOffice

3.0 / 3.1 / 3.2 / 3.3

LibreOffice

3.4

Adobe Acrobat

4.0 / 5.0 / 6.0 / 7.0 / 8.0 / 9.0 / X / XI / DC

PDF

1.2 / 1.3 / 1.4 / 1.5 / 1.6 / 1.7

JustSystems Ichitaro

  • Versions 5 to 13
  • 2004 to 2021

Microsoft XML Paper Specification (XPS)

1.0

RTF

1.0 to 1.9

Text documents with any of the following character encodings

JIS (ISO-2022-JP) / EUC-JP / Shift-JIS / UTF-8 / UTF-16

Markup language

HTML / XML / SGML

Limitations

  • For files that are 50 MB or larger, only the filenames are included in searches. The text in these files cannot be searched.
  • For files that are smaller than 50 MB, only the first 1 MB of text is included in searches.
  • Unicode characters in the Private Use Area (for example, user defined characters) may not be searched. And incorrect search results may appear.