keme, thanks for your input. I did all the things that John_Ha reccomends back in 2015, and I rebuild my desktop index at least once a year, usually more often than that. So whatever the problem is, it is not one that this solves. One thing I have not done is a fix via iFilter, suggested by the final comment in your link. But the last reference I could find here to iFilter was in 2017, and said the iFilter approach was outdated. -w-windows-10-indexing-odt-content-for-file-explorer-search-function/15999/ Note that I commented that I had the same problem in the 2017 posting.