Viewing the search results

When Acrobat finishes doing the search (which it completes very quickly, except in the cases of huge document collections), it displays all matching files and ranks them in order of relevance in the Results list boxRelevance Ranking is the default setting in the Sort By drop-down list. You can change the sort order of the Results list box by selecting Date Modified, Filename, or Location from the Sort By drop-down list. To have Acrobat open a document in the Results list and show you the first occurrence of the search term, click the Expand button (plus sign on Windows, triangle pointing right on Mac) to display a list of occurrences of the search term as they appear in the PDF document. Acrobat creates hyperlinks out of all search terms in the Results list box. If you hover the mouse pointer over a search term, a screen tip appears, indicating the page number that the term appears on in the selected PDF document. Clicking a search term opens the PDF document in the document pane and highlights the occurrence of search term on the page in the selected PDF document. You can close the Search PDF pane, which, like all How To panes, takes up a third of your screen, so that you can more easily view the matches highlighted in the selected document. To redisplay the Search PDF pane, press Ctrl+F (Ô+F on Mac), or you can use the Search Result commands on the Acrobat menu bar. Choose Edit➪Search Results and choose either Next Document, Next Result, Previous Result, or Previous Document on the submenu. The keyboard shortcuts are listed on this submenu.