Spotlight not finding text in Powerpoint files

When searching for text in .ppt files, Spotlight seems to find some, but not all text content.
I can't see anything different about the text it is not finding.
Anyone else had this problem?

I think the problem is only with Powerpoint 2008 (both ppt and pptx formats).
There is no obvious pattern: I just created a copy of a file, and Spotlight found a word in the copy but not the original (or previous copies). This word was in a heading text field, but words in the main text field on the same page are still not found.

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