Find a word or phrase in a document.Phil Bullphilbull@gmail.com
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Finding Text In A Document
Click EditFind or press
CtrlF or / to display a
search box.
Type the word or phrase you want to look for and a search will start
automatically.
The Find Previous and Find Next buttons let you skip from
one search result to another.
To hide the search bar, click anywhere in the document.
If the word or phrase you searched does not appear in the entire document Evince will say Not found. However, if it appears in the document at least once, Evince will tell you how many times the word you searched occurs on each page. This is apparent if you skip from one result to another as described above or scroll through the document.
Only PDF documents are searchable. Some PDF documents are not searchable because their text
is encoded in the document as an image.