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Finding words in PDF documents
You can use the Find command to find a complete word or part of a word in the current
PDF document. Acrobat looks for the word by reading every word on every page in the
file, including text in form fields.
If a full-text index has been created for your PDF document, you can search the index for a
word rather than using the Find command. A
full-text index
is an alphabetized list of all the
words used in a document or, more typically, in a collection of documents. Searching with
an index is much faster than using the Find command, because when Acrobat looks for a
word in the index it goes right to the word in the list rather than reading through the
documents. (See
“Searching indexes” on page 215
.)
To find a word using the Find command:
1
Click the Find button
, or choose Edit > Find.
2
Enter the text to find in the text box.
3
Select search options if necessary:
•
Match Whole Word Only finds only occurrences of the complete word you enter in the
text box. For example, if you search for the word
stick
, the words
tick
and
sticky
will not
be highlighted.
•
Match Case finds only words that contain exactly the same capitalization you enter in
the text box.
•
Find Backwards starts the search from the current page and goes backward through
the document.
•
Ignore Asian Character Width finds only those Kana characters that exactly match the
text you enter.
4
Click Find. Acrobat finds the first occurrence of the word.
To find the next occurrence of the word:
Do one of the following:
•
Choose Edit > Find Again.
•
Reopen the Find dialog box, and click Find Again. (The word must already be in the Find
text box.)
Getting information on PDF documents
When you view a PDF document, you can get information on the file, such as the title, the
fonts used, and any security settings. Some of this information is set by the person who
created the document, and some is generated by Acrobat. You can change any of the
information that can be set by the document creator (unless the file has been saved with
security settings that do not allow you to change the document).
To get information on the current document:
Choose a category from the File > Document Properties menu or from the document
pane menu to open an information dialog box. (You can open only the Summary, Security,
and Font dialog boxes from the document pane menu.)