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The Viewer contains powerful search features which allow you to look for various types of text within text-enabled documents such as Word documents and PDF files. In addition to searching within the text of your document, you can now perform a powerful set of document review tasks, using expanded Search features. With support for annotations search, you can search in comments, text annotations, redaction reasons, as well as see all of the annotations created in your document. Annotations can be navigated to by viewing annotation search results in the review panel or by navigating to each annotation in the document.

Example of the Search tab in the viewer:

This section contains the following information:

Text Search Features

Within the Search feature, there are multiple ways to search a document:

Search Document Text Box

Search by entering text in the Search Document text box:

Search Icons

Narrow your search by selecting the Search icons:

Search Patterns

Search using the Search Patterns drop-down list:

Search Filter

Search by using the advanced Search Filter:

Search Document Text Box

To use the search document text box:

1. Enter the text you want to search for in the Search Document text box and click the Magnifying Glass (or press Enter):

2. The Viewer will return the results listing the page number in the left-hand viewing pane. Click on the result you want and the Viewer will display the page in the right-hand pane:

3. To clear the search results, click on the X in the Search Document text box:

Search Icons

The Search icon bar:

You can search using the following criteria:

	Match Exact Word or Phrase - For example, you can search for an exact word "home" or a phrase "go home".
	Match Case - For example, you can search for "Home" or "home".
	Whole Word - For example, you can search for "home" and the search results will return "home" and "homeschooled".
	Begins With - For example, you can search for "con" and the search results will return "content" and "continued".
	Ends With - For example, you can search for "ent" and the search results will return "document" and "content".
	Use Wildcards - For example, you can use the asterisk (*) and search for "*@domain.com" and the search results will return all email addresses that have "@domain.com" in them (i.e., jane@domain.com). You can also use the question mark (?) and search for "ra?e" and the search results will return "rate", "rake", "race", etc.  When you select the 'Use Wildcards' icon, it automatically disables the following icons: 'Whole Word', 'Begins With' and 'Ends With'.

To use the search icons:

1. Click on the search icon you want to use:

2. Enter the text in the Search Document text box and click the Magnifying Glass (or press Enter):

3. The Viewer returns the results (for example, the Match Case icon was selected and the word Build was searched for):

4. To clear the search results, click on the X in the Search Document text box:

Search Patterns

The search patterns can be customized to use a wide variety of regular expressions. See How to Use Predefined Search for more information.

To use the search patterns:

1. Click on the Search Document drop-down arrow and select the search pattern you would like to use (for example, click on Date and then enter the date in the Search Document text box) and click Search (or press Enter):

2. The Viewer returns the results:

3. To clear the search results, click on the X in the Search Document text box:

Advanced Search Filters & Document Review Features

Search Terms

The search filter allows you to easily search any of the following in the document:

	Searches for text within the document that matches the specified search criteria.
	Searches for text within comments that contain the specified search criteria.
	Searches within annotations in the document. If selected, the annotation results returned will depend on the Markup filters selected, as shown below: Search text in markup: When the annotation filter is enabled, any text contained within the text annotation (and/or selected text within a highlight annotation), that matches the search criteria you enter, will be highlighted. The annotation will appear in the search results panel. Graphical marks: When the annotation filter is enabled and Graphical marks is selected, all annotations including graphical marks (lines, arrows, freehand, etc.) will be returned in the search results. This is a convenient way to quickly review all the annotations in your document. The annotation button must be selected for the Markup filters to return any content.
	Searches all redactions in the document. The redactions filter's results are independent of the search terms entered, because redacted content is not searched. However, by selecting the redactions filter, you can see and navigate to all redactions in the document. You can also filter Redaction Reasons by looking for redactions with specific reasons, or no reason at all. Redaction Reasons are configurable. See Using Redaction Reasons for more information.
	Finds all signatures in the document. This is independent of search criteria. The search does not inspect the content of the signature, but simply allows you to quickly find and navigate to the 'non-burned-in' signatures in the document.

Search Terms Count

The Search Terms pane displays an aggregated list of search results, sorted by most to least hits found. In the following example, "zero" appears 28 times in the document:

If multiple search terms are selected, search hits can be further toggled in the results list.

To use the search filter:

1. Click on the Search Options icon:

2. The default Search Filter is displayed:

All of the options are selected by default. If you don't want to include one or more of the options in your search, you can deselect them.

3. Enter the text you want to search for in the Search Document text box and click the Magnifying Glass (or press Enter): 

4. In this example, the term "approved" is entered and the Viewer returns two search terms and four results:

5. Click on the filter icon to view the Page, the Results and the Type found:

6. To clear the search results, click on the X in the Search Document text box:

 

 

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