Trouble using Spotlight

I have 10.9.2 installed on my Macbook Pro. Spotlight is not finding documents which are a couple of months old but I know are on my computer. The more recent documents are identified in Spotlight. Any suggestions. Very frustrating.

Robert,
Try following the steps listed in: Spotlight: How to re-index folders or volumes

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