I'm just a couple of partial days into DotNetNuke, and I confess that I haven't found definitive docs that work for me.  Tried to order some manuals, and the people I am working with are dragging their heels.

I am just coming over to this Module from the Documents module.  

My apologies for the probable stupid questions, but I don't know where else to go at this point:

1. Can't I set up the module to not need Moderation of docs?  

2. Can't I search the contents of the uploaded document?   People want to be able to upload a .DOC file, and then be able to search the contents.   Does this module handle that?   If not, is there one that does?

Thank you.

If your docs are publicly available (i.e., users do not need to login to view the documents module / links) then Google search will parse and return results from your uploaded .DOC, .TXT and .PDF files.  Although it would be clunky to have yet another search box on your documents page, you *could* use a Text/HTML module to drop a Google search box near the module with a label like "Search inside documents".  If you used Google AJAX search then you could return results on the same page without a page refresh (see a working example of file content search in DNN here: http://googleAJAXsearch.com).  The trick will be to determine and apply the needed Google search filter so only your documents are searched rather than your whole site or all the web.
 
If you use the Repository module you will probably need to enable the "direct links" option in order for Google to index the files' contents.

Cheers!
-mamlin