Spotlight search for TEXT?

Still on 10.4.9...
I try searching for a certain WORD within my many documents, but Spotlight can only find the NAMES of files, not WORDS WITHIN the files, at least none within any of my QuarkXpress files...
I also try Finder>Find, Use the MINUS button to delete all the other criteria, and change the default button from KIND to CONTENTS and type in the word I am looking for... There are no Quark files on the list, even though the Quark document is now actually opened and the certain word I'm looking for is right there...
Could it be that Spotlight or the Find function do not look into QuarkXpress documents? Or other documents like MSWord?

Content searches should work with MS Word, but not sure about QuarkXpress.
You might have luck if you install the QuarkXpress Filter for Spotlight at the bottom of this page:
http://euro.quark.com/en/products/xpress/xtensions/quark_xt.html

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