Find shows every place a word or phrase appears and highlights it on the page.
Steps
- Press Ctrl+F, or in the rail choose Edit, then Find in the Find group. The Search tab of the document panel opens.
- Type what you are looking for in Find text and choose Search this page.
- To search every page, choose Search all pages. Progress shows as it goes; Cancel stops it.
- Use Next match and Previous match to step through the results. Match … of … (for example "Match 3 of 12") tells you where you are.
- Narrow the search with Match case, Whole word or Regular expression.
Good to know
- Shortcut: Ctrl+F.
- You can also select text on the page, right-click it and choose Search for this.
- A phrase that runs onto the next line is still found. Words split by a hyphen at the end of a line are not found as one word.
- Scanned pages can be searched after their text is recognised.
- To change words everywhere, see "Find and replace text".
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