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Third box (value or text)
is a date, you can click the arrow to open a calendar that you can navigate to find and select the date you want.
Boolean operators
Commonly used Boolean operators include the following:
Use between two words to find documents that contain both terms, in any order. For example, type paris AND
AND
france to identify documents that contain both paris and france. Searches with AND and no other Boolean operators
produce the same results as selecting the All Of The Words option.
Use before a search term to exclude any documents that contain that term. For example, type NOT kentucky
NOT
to find all documents that don't contain the word kentucky. Or, type paris NOT kentucky to find all documents that
contain the word paris but not the word kentucky.
Use to search for all instances of either term. For example, type email OR e-mail to find all documents with
OR
occurrences of either spelling. Searches with OR and no other Boolean operators produce the same results as
selecting the Any Of The Words option.
Use to search for all instances that have either term but not both. For example, type cat ^ dog to
^ (exclusive OR)
find all documents with occurrences of either cat or dog but not both cat and dog.
Use parentheses to specify the order of evaluation of terms. For example, type white AND (whale OR ahab) to
( )
find all documents that contain either white and whale or white and ahab. (The query processor performs an OR
query on whale and ahab and then performs an AND query on those results with white.
To learn more about Boolean queries, syntax, and other Boolean operators that you can use in your searches, refer
to any standard text, website, or other resource with complete Boolean information.
Search index files of cataloged PDFs
A full-text index is created when someone uses Acrobat to define a catalog of PDFs. You can search that index for
the words you want to find rather than running a full-text search of each individual PDF in the catalog. An index
search produces a results list with links to the occurrences of the indexed documents.
Note: To search a PDF index, you must open Acrobat as a standalone application, not within your web browser. In
Mac OS, indexes created with some older versions of Acrobat are not compatible with the Acrobat 8 Search feature and
must be updated before you can use Acrobat 8 to search them.
Open the Search window, type the words you want to find, and then click Use Advanced Search Options (near the
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bottom of the window).
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For Look In, choose Select Index.
In the Index Selection dialog box, select an index, if the one you want to search is available, or click Add and then
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locate and select the index to be searched, and click Open. Repeat as needed until all the indexes you want to search
are selected.
Note: You can read file data about a selected index by clicking Info, and you can exclude indexes from the search either
by selecting them and choosing Remove or by clearing the check box for that index.
Click OK to close the Index Selection dialog box, and then choose Currently Selected Indexes on the Look In pop
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up menu.
Proceed with your search as usual, selecting other options you want to apply, and clicking Search.
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Note: Selecting the Match Whole Word Only option when searching indexes significantly reduces the time taken to
return results.
Indicates the information to be matched, which you type in. If the first menu selection
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