Spotlight doesn't search in word documents

Hello,
I have a Question regarding Spotlight: If I look for any phrase which is in word documents, Spotlight doesn't find it. (I got some documents from a friend, each about 100 pages). When I use OpenOffice and export the documents to pdf: no problem, Spotlight works perfectly.
Is there a way to force Spotlight to index this folder? I thought, Spotlight would index word documents automatically...

I found out the reason:
The *.doc documents were rtf-documents with a doc at the end. Spotlight doesn't index rtf as it seems.
Saving them as word solved the problem.

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