Picky Spotlight - not showing all my files

Has anyone had this problem? Whereby Spotlight is not showing a lot of files I search for? I had a look at the privacy settings and the only thing there is Roxio Converted Items.
The file I was looking for in particular was a .Pages file, which I located in a sub-folder of my documents folder, but Spotlight refused to find it!
Is there anything I can try?

Hello Ben:
Files beginning with a period are usually hidden files to UNIX based systems. I am sorry I am away from my Macs so I cannot give you a pointer to displaying those files. Search help and the support part of this site for further information.
I also found that when I do a "find" I usually see what I am looking for by adding +system files+ to the search criteria.
Barry

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