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This is an article that shows you how to find words or sentences in PDF documents through the free Adobe Reader DC app or Google Chrome web browser for Mac and Windows, or using the Preview app on Mac.
Steps
Using Adobe Reader DC
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Open PDF documents with Adobe Acrobat Pro. This is a program with a red Adobe Reader icon with a stylized ” A “. After starting the program, click File , then select Open . Next, select the PDF file and click Open .
- If you don’t have Adobe Reader DC, you can download the program for free by going to https://get.adobe.com/reader/ from a web browser and clicking Download Now .
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Click Edit on the menu bar.
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Click Find .
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Enter a word or sentence in the “Find” dialog box.
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Click Next (Continue). The word or sentence you are looking for will be highlighted in the text.
- Click Next or Previous to move to the position of the word or sentence you are looking for in the text.
Using Google Chrome browser
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Open PDF documents with Chrome browser. In the Chrome browser, you can access PDF documents on the web, or you can open PDF files from your computer by right-clicking on the file, then clicking Open with and selecting Google Chrome .
- For Mac computers that don’t use a two-button mouse, you can press Contrp and click or tap the trackpad with two fingers.
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Click ⋮ in the upper right corner of the browser.
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Click Find near the bottom of the displayed menu.
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Type the word or sentence you want to find. Chrome will highlight the results displayed in the text as soon as you type something.
- The yellow bars on the scroll bar on the right side of the screen indicate the position of the match in that page.
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to view the next result or return to the previous result on the currently displayed page.
Using Preview on Mac
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Open PDF documents with Preview application. You’ll double-click the blue Preview icon that looks like overlapping images, then click File in the menu bar and Open… in the menu that appears. Select a file in the dialog box and click Open .
- Preview is Apple’s proprietary image viewing application that comes pre-installed on most versions of Mac OS.
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Click Edit on the menu bar.
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Click Find .
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Click Find… .
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Type a word or sentence into the “Search” field in the upper-right corner of the window.
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Click Next . The entire word or sentence you are looking for in the text will be highlighted.
- Click < or > below the search field to move to the location where the word or sentence is found in the text.
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