Spotlight can't find a document

Hello,
I'm using OSX Snow Leopard. Spotlight was unable to find a document in a folder. It found several others that have almost the same name, but not the one I was looking for. By scrolling down in the finder window I found it without spotlight right away.
To better explain my problem:
I was looking for a document that was called "Paperless". Spotlight found several document in different folders like "Paperlessone", Paperless2" etc. But not able to find "Paperless"
I checked the Spotlight options and it says, that it is looking for everything.
Has anyone an idea, what the problem was and how it could be solved.
Thank you

Looking for everything is meaningless. Spotlight indexes, most, but not all files/folders. What you have to ensure is that it reports what's in its index. For that, you have to expand the search criteria. Peruse http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/Leopard/leospot.html for a Spotlight tutorial.

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