It seems I have to do it monthly (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(
Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)
MacBook Pro (2020 and later)
I have been running Big Sur since it was released on both Intel and M1 and have never rebuilt the Spotlight Index on either machine. I have rebuilt it once on my iMac running Mojave since Mojave was released. My searches find what I need.
The search that I use for Word documents is:
kind:word +.docx
or even:
name:.docx
Replacing word and docx with excel and xlsx also works.
It happened late last night after reindexing a few days ago. It was not finding all matched Office documents in Documents folder (almost 1,700 files and 16 GB). 2020 Intel MacBook Pro's Disk Utility app found nothing wrong. Reboot didn't help. :(
And again last night. Is there a Spotlight log somewhere in macOS? I forgot to mention this is in a standard level account (not admin.).
VikingOSX: I don't use those. I just type keywords. That's all. Nothing fancy.
How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes?