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Searching with Document Info and Date Info
If document and date information was provided for the documents you are searching, you
can use this information in the Search dialog box to limit your search. For example, you
can limit your search to documents authored by one person and created or modified
within a given period or on a given date.You can view the document and date information
(if any) provided by choosing File > Document Properties > Summary from within the PDF
document. If these options are not displayed in the Acrobat Search dialog box, restore
them by closing the Search dialog box, choosing Edit > Preferences > General > Search
(Windows), or Edit > Preferences > Search (Mac OS) and selecting Document Information.
Open the Query dialog box to continue.
To search using Document Info:
In the Search dialog box, enter your search query information in the appropriate title,
subject, author, and keywords text boxes.You can use Boolean operators and wild-card
characters in these text boxes, with the search text. All documents that contain the value
are returned. If the With Document Info text boxes are not displayed in your Search dialog
box, choose Edit > Preferences > General > Search (Windows), or
Edit > Preferences > Search (Mac OS) and select Document Information.You may see
additional custom text boxes in your display, depending on the information supplied for
the PDF document.
To search using Date Info:
1 In the Search dialog box, do one of the following:
Enter a date (month, day, year), or use the Up Arrow and Down Arrow keys to select a
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value.
To limit a search to documents created or modified after a specific date, specify the after
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date, and leave the before date blank.
To limit a search to documents that were created or modified before a specific date,
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specify the before date, and leave the after date blank.
To create a Boolean AND condition, enter the creation and modification dates in the
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Search dialog box. An AND condition returns only documents created or modified
during the specified period.
Searching for phrases, stopwords, numbers, and separator
characters
If the indexes do not specify stopwords, you can search for phrases in which they appear.
For more information on stopwords, see
phrase includes the words and, or, or not used in their ordinary sense (not as a Boolean
operator), put the phrase in quotation marks.The search phrase
"once or twice"
finds all occurrences of the phrase once or twice, not all occurrences of once and all occur-
rences of twice as it would without the quotes.
If your search phrase includes punctuation (other than an apostrophe) or special
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characters (such as @ and *), they are ignored. For example, either of the terms
son-in-law, son in law
finds all occurrences of both son-in-law and son in law.
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