Issue: Pattern Matching not working with Docx File Headers

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Dear Mr_Noodle,

I seem to have problems using Hazel's "contents" "contains matches" function to search the headers (and I presume footers) in .docx files. I do not have the same problem with .doc files.

I use Hazel to search out a string of text which is the reference number for the document in the header so this function is quite important for me. I would appreciate it if you could let me know what I'm doing wrong.

Thank you.

Warm regards,
Michael
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Note that .docx are compressed (in zip format actually). I'm guessing that it isn't a supported text type that Hazel can read. You may need to look into a script to either (a) somehow grab the info you want out of the file) or (b) convert the file into a doc file.
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