Search inside Keynote files

I have a series of Keynote, and I am trying to search for some text within them. However, Spotlight does not appear to search the text of the files. Is there any add-on or fix for this? Spotlight does search the text of PowerPoint files, so it must be able to search Keynote files, right

There are two things you could try:
1. Force a re-index of the folder containing the files; you do this by adding the folder to the Privacy tab in the Spotlight pane of System Preferences, wait a minute and then remove it. You might launch Activity Monitor, make sure All Processes are showing, arrange by name and high-light the "mdimport" that belongs to "unknown"--then when you delete the folder from the Privacy list see if the process kicks in and starts using the CPU.
2. You could always download EasyFind and use it to do a brute force search on file contents:
http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/freeware/
A content search can take awhile, since EasyFind doesn't use an index, so you'll want to make sure you only search the folder the files are in.
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