What is a "document" in Spotlight?

I was searching for an old Word document from the Finder and could not locate it. I found the file by date and went back to figure out why I didn't find it the first time. I had put keywords in the search field and added Kind as Document. If I turn that off, it finds the document. With it on, it does not locate it. What is a Document to Spotlight? How else would you specify Word documents if not as Document?

Apple's definition of a Document in Spotlight is about the most useless thing ever. I don't use it. Technically, "Document" is defined in a search by the Raw Query of "kMDItemContentTypeTree = public.content"--which includes dang near every sort of file--except, evidently, your Word documents (my MSWord docs, created in the Office 2004 version of Word, are included in the Document definition).
If I were trying to get only MS Word documents, I would use "Kind is Other" and type Word into the blank field. That will cover Word docs created in my version of MS Office, whose kind is defined as "Microsoft Word Document" in their metadata, and will also bring up Word documents going all the way back to Word 97, whose kind is defined as "Word 97 Format (.doc)" in their metadata. I don't have the more recent version of MS Word, but you can check one of your files with GetInfo and see what it says for Kind.
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