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

Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)

"Justin Martin [MSFT]" wrote in
message ...
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]" wrote
in
message ...
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.