What is a * successful * way to search for files containing a specific word that is not the file name?

I've seen several threads on forum Windows 7, but no successful response.  I desperately need to find documents that contain a certain word * in * the file is not part of the file name.  It was easy under Windows XP, but it seems that they removed this feature in Windows 7, and it's really causing me problems.

So let's say the word is 'author '... I need to find all files that contain this word, even if "author" is not in the name of the file.  I've seen different "fixes" posted by MS Tech support, but none of them work.  I tried "contains:", search filters, checking the box "always search file names and content" and nothing works, even if I saved at least a dozen documents that contain that Word.  And no, I'm not he shell.  I checked and I found at least one of them just by hunting around.  I also tried the uppercase and lowercase without result.  I would like to avoid having to download the 3rd party software.

Please help, there must be a way!

There is also the alternative prompt BACK, requiring no download:

Looking for content regardless of the type of file: http://www.computerhope.com/findstr.htm

If you have never done stuff with a DOS command prompt before, then there is some learning to navigate a file system to see well.

(Try you the term "content:" and not "contains:" right?)

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