Finding Styled Text
- Choose Edit->Find & Replace->Find...
- Enter the search phrase into the Find: box.
If text is selected using the Text tool () when you open the Find dialog, then that text will be copied into the Find: box for you.
- To restrict the find to a page-range, click on the hyper-link shown below:
You can also restrict the search to a specific area. - Choose a page range to search across. If you are currently editing text with the Text tool (
) you can choose Current Story to limit the search to just the active text boxes.
- Click on Whole words if you need to match complete words and not fragments. If not ticked, rainbow will match rainbows as well as rainbowPhotos.com this case rainbow would
- Click on Match Case if you want capitalisation to be taken in to account.
- Click on Use Wildcards to use simple wildcard characters in your search
- ? - matches a single character e.g. Hole? would match Hole9
- * - matches any number of characters e.g. ice* would match ice, iced, iceland
- + - matches one or more characters e.g. ice+ would match iced, iceland but not ice.
- To find text in a specific font, style or colour, press the Character formatting hyperlink.
- If you only want to find text in a specific font,colour or size and don't care what the text is, un-tick the Find: check-box.
When un-ticked, any text matching the Character formatting will be found. Until you specified some character formatting restrictions, the Find Next button will remain inactive in this case. - Press Find Next to show the next occurrence of the search text from the current place. Each time you press Find Next, Infix Pro PDF Editor will zoom-in on and select the text found if Zoom-in on results is ticked.
- Press Find All to show the Results list which will display all the locations where the search text is found.
Double-click on an entry to view that entry in the document.
If you are searching through a portfolio, the third column in the results table will show the name of the document within the portfolio in which the text was found. - Hit Replace >> if you decide you want to replace as well as find the target text.