I don't expect this will be helpful, but I just did a Vista search for the
word 'golf' and I get 74 documents, most of which are Word documents, and
where the word 'golf' is in the file text and not in the title, and about a
third of which are 'Microsoft Office Word 97-2003 Documents'.

One thing I do every few months is to rebuild the search index 'whether it
needs it or not'; often clears up problems.

"Colin2703" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, was there ever a solution to this problem? I get the same
> difficulty using Vista search. If I search for files with, say, "golf"
> in the contents, I get all sorts of results - but no word documents!!
> pdf files are all successfully searched, but word files only appear if
> the word "golf" is in the file name. I have made sure that the folder
> options / search tab has beenset so that it (supposedly) searches the
> contents and the file name. Any ideas? Most the files it is missing
> are Word 2003 files. It doesnt matter how I start the search - it
> always gives the same results.
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> Colin2703