Finder will not find

I write a lot of documents word, and quite often need to find paragraphs etc I have already written, it works fine on my MacBook, I must type in relevant Word Finder ever, I didn't find that and it would come with all the documents containing that Word. I recently bought a second hand mac book air and it won't let me do that, I type in the word and it comes up with nothing, I tried several times with different words and nothing coming.

Any ideas how I can fix this please.

Compare the settings of the spotlight in system preferences: Spotlight: search results on two Macs. I have all these selected and regularly find words in Word documents. On older MacBook Air, you may need to add your boot drive to the section of the privacy in the first sentence, restart Mac and let re-index your boot drive. It's the spotlight.

In the Finder, visit the view menu, and then choose Show path bar. Nothing will be visible until you click a file in the Finder window, and then it will show the path to this document. In the search window, enter kind: word AND "word" where the word is your search term. This will display all documents in word with this expression in them.

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