diff --git a/search/documents/physical_htm.php b/search/documents/physical_htm.php
index ef0a8a0e48a..76085111580 100644
--- a/search/documents/physical_htm.php
+++ b/search/documents/physical_htm.php
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ function get_text_for_indexing_htm(&$resource, $directfile = ''){
     */
     
     if (!empty($CFG->block_search_limit_index_body)){
-        $text = shorten($text, $CFG->block_search_limit_index_body);
+        $text = shorten_text($text, $CFG->block_search_limit_index_body);
     }
     return $text;
 }
diff --git a/search/documents/physical_ppt.php b/search/documents/physical_ppt.php
index 7dd14e6c8b4..f86bbf5b017 100644
--- a/search/documents/physical_ppt.php
+++ b/search/documents/physical_ppt.php
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ function get_text_for_indexing_ppt(&$resource, $directfile = ''){
     // fclose($logppt);
     
     if (!empty($CFG->block_search_limit_index_body)){
-        $indextext = shorten($text, $CFG->block_search_limit_index_body);
+        $indextext = shorten_text($text, $CFG->block_search_limit_index_body);
     }
 
     $indextext = mb_convert_encoding($indextext, 'UTF-8', 'auto');
diff --git a/search/documents/physical_txt.php b/search/documents/physical_txt.php
index 1cdf8eb1b29..6d69c838bce 100644
--- a/search/documents/physical_txt.php
+++ b/search/documents/physical_txt.php
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ function get_text_for_indexing_txt(&$resource, $directfile = ''){
     }
     
     if (!empty($CFG->block_search_limit_index_body)){
-        $text = shorten($text, $CFG->block_search_limit_index_body);
+        $text = shorten_text($text, $CFG->block_search_limit_index_body);
     }
     return $text;
 }
diff --git a/search/documents/physical_xml.php b/search/documents/physical_xml.php
index 58dbb4bc412..6347ae01e86 100644
--- a/search/documents/physical_xml.php
+++ b/search/documents/physical_xml.php
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ function get_text_for_indexing_xml(&$resource, $directfile = ''){
     $text = preg_replace("/<[^>]*>/", ' ', $text);
     
     if (!empty($CFG->block_search_limit_index_body)){
-        $text = shorten($text, $CFG->block_search_limit_index_body);
+        $text = shorten_text($text, $CFG->block_search_limit_index_body);
     }
     return $text;
 }