How to Search in Windows 7 for text within a document?

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How do you search for a document by using searching specific text in the document? (Word or other searchable doc.) Other forum answers suggest that this will happen with the general search box that appears in the upper right corner of explorer - but this does not seem to be the case.

I have searched for known words, and documents do not come up.

Is there a default? Is there a way turn on the search within document? (formerly, the detailed search option for any folder would prompt you to select 'search within document.')

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Try just typing the phrase into the search box. If this doesn’t work, try content: “words in phrase”

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2013-12-18T03:05:54+00:00

Normally, you often can use the general search box to find any wanted file or documents out. But, if this still cannot make a sense, you many try to use some file finder tools that often allows you to seek a file according to different properties.

This article may be useful for you:

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/7-awesome-alternatives-windows-search-si/
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