Please tell us a little more.

Which Vista feature are you using to search? (Starting from where?)
Does your search method work search for other words besides golf?
Where is this folder containing document(s) that contained the word golf?
What file format are the documents that contain golf that aren't being
found? (Word 97-2003, 2007?)
Were those documents ever converted from other file formats?
Have they been in their folder long enough to have been indexed?

That's all I can think of now, but it might help us.
In the meantime, try creating a brand new document in Word and typing golf
in the body. Save it to more than one location, such as in Documents, AND in
that folder where the search is not finding it. Does Vista search find the
brand new document?

Brian

"Peter" <peter@here.com> wrote in message
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>I need to be able to search the contents of Word files in a set of folders
>to find files containing a certain word.
>
> However currently when I search a folder to find a file containing (say)
> "golf" (I know a t least one file contains the word 'golf'), it does not
> find any files. Even selecting contain contents.
>
> However if I save the file in text format, thesearch finds the file.
>
> Why - am I doing something wrong?
>
> Thanks
> Peter
>
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