Resource type for PowerPoint files? Also, emulating *.doc, etc.?

[roschler 158]

Hello all,

Does anyone know if there is a resource type for Microsoft PowerPoint files (PPT)? Something equivalent to the one for Excel files and a few others?:

Example resource type for Microsoft Excel files: resource:application/vnd.ms-excel

Also, is there a way around the Evernote limitation on wildcards? Currently the wildcard character aka the asterisk (*) only works as a match-all operator for the characters that precede it, for example "abc*", making search filters such as *.DOC for file-names impossible. Is there a work-around for this?

Thanks,

Robert

[jefito 5,598]

As a start, I searched the registry for "ppt", and found a string entry named "Content Type: whose value was "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint". Looked like a likely suspect, so I tried it in Evernote (resource:application/vnd.ms-powerpoint), and it turned up a PowerPoint attachment. I'd give that one a start.

Don't know of an wildcarding workarounds such as you are asking for,

[roschler 158]

Hello jefito,

Thanks! If you come across any other Content Type values like that, please pass them on to me.

-- roschler

[roschler 158]

I think I found the mother lode:

http://www.utoronto.ca/web/htmldocs/book/book-3ed/appb/mimetype.html

-- roschler

[jefito 5,598]

Really all I did was some simple registry spelunking, and hit it lucky right off; but on Windows, that's where that stuff is going to live.

[jefito 5,598]

I did look at that mime list, noted that the PowerPoint entry isn't the same as the one I turned up, and didn't find the lone PowerPoint attachment that I have in my notes. Wish I understood this stuff a little bit better, I should really dig into this.

[spg SCOTT 736]

I have a feeling that this would be more accurate. (some on the other page, don't seem to match up...for example, powerpoint are ppt files, not ppz.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mime_types

[roschler 158]

@spg SCOTT,

Great find, thanks.

-- roschler

[EdH 1,670]

This doesn't seem to work in Evernote 5.6.x. Did the Powerpoint resource get removed? Excel works fine.

[FactMan 196]

I am curious - how do you use this format to be able to isolate/remove non-text items? If I clip a web page on the Windows version I can change it to plain text by using CTRL-spacebar. However, until I do that I am unable to edit the note on the Android (KIndle Fire) or Windows Phone versions. Most of my notes that are not text are pdfs - easy to exclude those with -resource/application/pdf, but finding just text items has eluded me. Any guidance (even if "not possible") much appreciated!