Library search returns no results

Question

I have a library with 4 documents in it. Three of the documents has the word "template" in the name. There is an additional multi-select choice column where template is an option. Further, one of the documents has the word "template" in the text of the .docx. Why would a library search return zero results for "template"?

Answer 1

First you could check crawl log and see if items were crawled, as shown below.

And search with other columns’ value, see whether there are results returned.

Start full crawl and search again.