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I have several mssword docs uploaded to my plone site, but when I try to make a search, no results are returned.. is there anything more I should do? I've enabled converters when I define the TextIndexNG index, but I don't know if this is enough.

SearchableText as index + enabled converters should be enough. Of course you must have the necessary external converters installed (see wiki on zope.org).

I have Indexed Attributes set to: "SearchableText,data" Without specifically listing 'data' it wasn't picking up my Word, PDF, etc docs either.

Larry, are you running it under Windows? have you instaled wvware?