How to search

Hi everyone
I've very recently changed from Windows 7 to 10 and seem to have lost the ability to search for a word in a document / spreadsheet etc.
In 7 I used to be able to enter a key word and it would bring up all the documents / spreadsheets that contained that word anywhere. Now, it seems that I can only search for a word that's in the title, which is a problem when a) I can't remember what I called it and b) I can't remember where I saved it.

Hopefully someone will be able to tell me how to do this.
Fingers Crossed !!!

yes file explorer has been hosed since the recent update any info on this? just trying to get the search block to respond has been painfull i have had to go to search hist. and re do the search criteria luckely just back spacing works but some times the search for file type will not show up at all something is not right.
DME

I have Windows 10 Home, Version 1909, OS build 18363.592 and do not seem to have this problem. I can enter a word I want that is within a document and the resulting list of documents appears. It is different from earlier Windows in that there is an arrow to be clicked to the right of the search window to bring up the list of results after entering the word I am looking for. So apparently it does work ok for some users?

Everything might hold promise.

FAQ

Does Everything search file contents?
Yes, "Everything" can search file content with the content: search function.
File content is not indexed, searching content is slow.