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#1

I write a lot of small story´s in Libre Office. I name them. Some I export as a pdf to send to people of whom most dont know LO.

Later I try to find the story, and think of a word that is specific to that story. So I go to the folder containing all those story´s and search with the word. ( I use windows 8.1 ) So windows searches
Most of the time windows does not find the LO aricle but if I have exported to PDF ( they are in the same file ) windows finds the story.
I can do a cheque, the two storys are in the same folder, the pdf and the odt and only in the pdf the specific word is found.
Why ? What do I do wrong ?

#2

I have Windows 10 but I don’t use Windows search function so I can’t help with details however there are a couple of sites that tell you how to expand the types of text files for Windows to look within and the instructions look straightforward: https://www.howtogeek.com/99406/how-to-search-for-text-inside-of-any-file-using-windows-search/ , How to force Windows 10 to search inside files for text

#3

Finding by searching content of files requires an operating system functionality to open the file and to create an index, hence the operating system’s index facility must be aware / configured:

  • that it should create the index of the content for a specific file type (by file extension) --and–
  • how to open the specific file(s), which should be indexed

On Windows 10 (got no Windows 8.1) you can find the proper setting in Windows -> Settings -> Search -> Searching Windows -> Advance Search Indexer Settings (and on Windows 10 and LibreOffice 6.4.5 the proper entries to index content of ODF type extension are set),

#4

I have now followed the advice, the indexing took a very long time, no result.
I put in a search for the word “ Pietje” and I am given the pdf, not the odt.

#5

It wasn’t meant as an advice but an explanation and in fact stating that your question is not related to LibreOffice - it is a matter of your operating system, while this site is about questions on LibreOffice usage.

#6

Agree, It is not a LibreOffice problem.
Other question. Since windows finds words in Pdf, and a lot of my small story are exported to pdf.
Each time I change a story, LibreOffice asks me to save the change. Fine, great. Could I also automatic save the change in de Pdf? So the pdf receives a change / addition also ?

#7

No - you can’t, these are two files. It is possible to create a macro exporting to PDF and binding that macro to event Document has been saved, which results in saving the writer file also creates a new PDF.

#8

Windows cannot search inside a file while LibreOffice has it open.

LibreOffice 6.3.6.2 (x86); OS: Windows 6.1.

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