Spotlight and InDesign files under 10.9

Hi,
in Mountain Lion, InDesign files (.indd) used to be sorted in the documents category and appeared on top of results ; in order to do it, I had moved the documents category on top of spotlight search result.
Since Mavericks, the .indd files show up in a "Other" category for which sorting is not available.
Would it be possible to resolve this ?

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