Your system admin is correct. Spotlight will indeed search inside a document for a word or phrase.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/tips/spotlight.html is a good starting point for using Spotlight
Hope it helps
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Since the release of Mac OS Tiger, there is a lot of ruffle about this feature called as Spotlight which our system admin told that it can search within the documents but I haven't yet managed to use it effectively.
I was wondering if anybody has some decent link that can help me to use this feature more effectively.
Thank you.

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