Searching Pdfs - Adobe 22002420 - Acrobat Standard - PC User Manual

Choose In The Entire PDF Package. Or choose In Selected PDF Documents, and then select the desired PDFs
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from the list of PDFs included in the package.
See also
"Find text in multiple PDFs" on page 283
Search attachments
You can search for words in single PDF or in multiple PDFs, along with any attached PDFs up to two levels deep.
Choose Edit > Search, and click Use Advanced Search Options at the bottom of the window.
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2 Type search terms in the text box, and choose how you want to restrict the search results.
Choose where you want to search.
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4 Select Include Attachments, and then click Search.
See also
"Advanced Search Options" on page 284

Searching PDFs

Search features overview
You run searches to find specific items in PDFs. You can run a simple search, looking for a search term within in a
single file, or you can run a more complex search, looking for various kinds of data in one or more PDFs.
You can run a search using either the Search window or the Find toolbar. In either case, Acrobat searches the PDF
body text, layers, form fields, and digital signatures. You can also include bookmarks and comments in the search.
The Search window offers more options and more kinds of searches than the Find toolbar. When you use the Search
window, object data and image XIF (extended image file format) metadata are also searched. For searches across
multiple PDFs, Acrobat also looks at document properties and XMP metadata, and it searches indexed structure tags
when searching a PDF index. If some of the PDFs you search have attached PDFs, you can include the attachments
in the search.
Note: PDFs can have multiple layers. If the search results include an occurrence on a hidden layer, selecting that occur­
rence displays an alert that asks if you want to make that layer visible.
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