Spotlight doesn't find "numbers," in Numbers.  Way to fix that?

Hi.
With Excel documents, Spotlight finds numbers within the document. i.e. an invoice number, an amount, etc.
However, Spotlight is not finding any numbers inside my Numbers documents.
Is there anyway to change or fix this? THanks for the help. Even if there is a third party way or something? Thanks!

i can imagine why spotlight does no indexing on data inside cells... it looks to me pretty useless to index files that have hundreds of reoccurring numbers numbers and numbers - would you like to have an overview of all files that has the number 6 in it, or 51.... and than to think of it that a lot of numbers in a table are not numbers at all, but only calculations
however, there is a way to get spotlight informed:
use the inspector, document (most left tab) there is a option to set various spotlight hints like author, title, keywords and comments
hope that will help
wished that Numbers and others were more scriptable, so i could get some cell contents and paste it into the keyword field there

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