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Version 9
Product Update Bulletin
Using the Find and Search Commands
While viewing a PDF file in the Adobe Reader, you can locate information using either the Find or Search commands.
NOTE: The Search command is only available if you downloaded the Adobe Reader with Search. This Reader is available for free from the following Adobe Web Site: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.Using the Find Command
The Acrobat Find command lets you perform a simple search within a single PDF file. To use the Find command, do the following:
- Start the Adobe Reader and open the PDF file in which you want to find information.
- Select Edit
Find. The Find dialog box appears:
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- Enter the text to find in the Find What field.
- To further refine your search, select one or more of the check boxes below the Find What field.
- Click the Find button. Adobe Reader then searches for the text and highlights the first instance. Click the Find Again button to locate additional instances of the Find text.
Using the Search Command
The Acrobat Search command lets you perform full-text searches across the entire Progress documentation set. It provides powerful tools for limiting and expanding searches. To use the Search command, do the following:
- Start the Adobe Reader.
- Select Edit
Search
Query. The Adobe Acrobat Search dialog box appears.
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- Type the text you want to search for in the Find Results Containing Text box. You can:
- Enter a single word, a number, a term, or a phrase or any combination of letters, numbers, and symbols.
- Enter a word with or without wild-card characters (*, ?), or any combination of letters, numbers, and symbols.
- Use Boolean operators (and, or, or not). You must enclose any search term that uses Boolean operators (and, or, or not) in quotes.
- Use the =, ~, and ! operators to perform exact matches, contains, and does not contain searches.
- Use comparison operators (<, <=, >, >=) to search for with values of the same type.
- To further refine your search, select the Word Stemming, Sounds Like, Thesaurus, Match Case, or Proximity check boxes as desired.
- Click Search to perform the search. The Search Results window appears with the list of documents containing the search text.
- Double-click a document in the list. The document opens on the first match for the searched text.
- Click the Search Next or Search Previous buttons on the Adobe Reader toolbar to go to other matches in this document and to other documents in the documentation set.
For more information and tips on using the Acrobat Search functionality, refer to the Adobe Reader help by select Reader Help from the Help menu.
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