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Indexing Files for Content Searches

As noted on the previous page, Search will look through the contents of most text files. For instance, maybe you’re working on a research project and you’ve created dozens of files on the topic of chess. You want to find all the papers in your collection that mention “en passant.” That’s when you click the “Contents” button; instead of searching for just the name of a file, Search will actually read the contents of files. For instance, you might have written an article that you titled “Special Moves in Chess,” and in the article itself you wrote about the en passant move, but you also mention en passant in three other articles that have different titles—Search will find every file that includes the phrase ...