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I recently started using WPS Office as a lightweight alternative to Microsoft Office. However on my system it appears to not index file contents. For example if I have a spreadsheet with the word hello in it, Windows Search will not find the file as it should.

Am I missing something or is this not possible with WPS Office?

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File types not recognised by default by the Windows Indexing Service and Windows Search require an IFilter to allow for indexing and full text searches. You can see a list of all installed IFilters using IFilter Explorer:

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So unless WPS Office provides the appropriate IFilters for its own file formats or you can obtain these from elsewhere, you're out of luck.

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  • If the file formats used by WPS Office are the same as those of MS Office, of course the IFilters for the latter will work.
    – Karan
    May 5, 2015 at 4:23
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This is controlled by the IFilter plugin. It is included with Microsoft Office, LibreOffice and OpenOffice.

For use with other suites, it will need to be downloaded.

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