Hi, Colin.

Have you set Indexing Options to include the folders where those documents
are? And have you given yourself permission to see files in those folders?

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
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Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)

"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