To locate a word or phrase across a selection of documents, you should use Acrobat’s “Search” feature. Note that the “Find” feature in Acrobat only locates information in the active document. Once you click the “OK” button on this pop-up message, the “Find” operation is complete. When you have clicked through all the occurrences of your search term, Acrobat will show you an informational pop-up message saying that it has finished searching the document, and that no more matches could be found. If you want to replace all instances of the word found with the replacement word, you can do it even more quickly by simply clicking through the document using the “Replace Next” button found at the bottom of the toolbar. If you enter text in the “Replace with” text box, you can then click the “Replace” button to replace the selected text that was found with the text that you typed into the “Replace” text box. If you click the arrow next to the words “Replace with” at the bottom of the Find toolbar, the toolbar will expand slightly to include a second text box. The Find toolbar also contains a “Replace” feature. You can specify that your search results include whole words only, specify a case-sensitive search, which finds only exact matches to the casing of the word or phrase you typed, specify to search within the bookmarks, or specify to search within the comments by selecting the desired commands within this drop-down menu.
If you click the arrow on the right side of the text box in the Find toolbar, you will see a drop-down menu of options for using the “Find” feature. You can continue clicking the “Next” and “Previous” buttons in the Find toolbar until you have reviewed all the results of your search.įind Words and Phrases in a PDF Using Acrobat XI Pro: A picture of the “Find” toolbar within Adobe Acrobat XI Pro. When you click the “Next” button within the Find toolbar, Acrobat displays the next occurrence of the word or phrase, again highlighting the text. Acrobat will highlight the first occurrence of the word or phrase in your active PDF. Type the word or phrase you want to locate into the text box within this toolbar, and press the “Enter” key on your keyboard. You use the “Find” feature to find words and phrases in a PDF using Acrobat XI Pro. The Find toolbar appears in the upper right corner of the application window. To find words and phrases in a PDF using Acrobat XI Pro, start by choosing “Edit| Find” from the Menu Bar.
Find Words and Phrases in a PDF Using Acrobat XI Pro: OverviewĪcrobat’s “Find” feature allows you to find word or phrases in a PDF using Acrobat XI Pro, without having to read all of the text in the document.
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