![]() ![]() docx files, you need to use a program (usually a word processor, such as MS Word, LibreOffice, OpenOffice, or the like) that is specifically designed to read such files similarly, for reading. Notepad++ was not built to read such binary files if you want to read or search. ![]() Even here, finding what you expect might be the exception rather than the rule.) (There are times, especially in the PDF, when there is some plain text… but there is no guarantee that the sequence you are looking for will stay contained in plaintext it might get separated by some binary characters, or otherwise have binary control characters embedded along with it, inhibiting your search. The fact that Notepad++ renders any of the text from the document as readable plain text, or that its find-in-files feature discovers any matches in those file types, is the exception rather than the rule. pdf (Adobe’s Portable Document Format files) are binary (ie, not plaintext) files which can hold text, formatting, images, embedded objects, links, etc – but the “binary” means they are encoded in such a way that the sequence of bytes in the file (without additional decoding) do not necessarily match any plaintext representations (like ASCII, ISO 8859-*, or UTF8 Unicode), and are thus unintelligible to Notepad++. Notepad++ is an editor for plaintext files. docx file look like junk ?”, or “Why doesn’t Find In Files match anything when searching a directory of PDFs?” ![]() If you find yourself linked to this post, it is likely because you asked something like “Why does my. ![]()
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