Finder doesn't show all documents

hello all,
i have a client that is experiencing some issues with finder. when opening up a folder in finder, some of the documents can't be seen. but spotlight says that the documents are in the folder and one can open the documents through the spotlight search results.
my client believes that this is only happening with microsoft office 2008 documents. do you guys think that this is a finder issue or an office issue? should office be uninstalled and re-installed?
i have done some googling and i wasn't able to find anyone with the same issue.
thanks.

My first question would be what are the file names? If they begin with a period ('.'), they will automatically be made invisible. They would need to be renamed to remove the period from the beginning of the name.
Another possibility is that the hard drive is damaged... your client should try [repairing the hard drive with Disk Utility|http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1417].
It's unlikely that this has anything to do with MS Office.

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