PDF XChange Forum

Hello,

Is there a way to perform a word or phrase search in PDF-XChange Viewer and jump to the first or only occurrence of the search phrase automatically? (Similar behaviour as in Adobe Acrobat.) Any input is much appreciated!

Regards,
Armin

Hello Armin,

Yes - if you use the search toolbar and not the advanced search - this is the exact behabiour.

So the simple search is activated with pressing Ctrl-F, and the advanced search is with Ctrl-Shift-F

Using the simple search once the first occurence is found pressing Enter or F3 jumps to the next result if it exists.

Best,
Stefan

Thank you very much. I think it would be great if this behaviour could be made the default also for the advanced search, i.e. when searching across multiple documents.

Regards,
Armin

Hi Armin,

When using the advanced search - and specifically when you are searching through multiple documents - it's, in my opinion, better to just list the results and then let you pick up the one you want to see. For example there might be 5 results in 4 different files - and opening the first occurrence in file A might not be the one you need, and when you can see the text surrounding your search criteria in the list of results - you can correctly recognize that file B is the one you really need.

Also there are other factors like e.g. windows sending the files in an order that does not always match the order you see in file explorer - so if you search through a folder - the first result and the first file found could be e.g. the 5th in the list you were looking, so there's a lot of "guessing" which result to show you first - and we'd rather avoid that.

And in any case - you are just a click away from seeing the file you want once the results have been listed in the advanced search window.

Best,
Stefan

Tracker Supp-Stefan wrote:advanced search is with Ctrl-Shift-F

I didn't know there is advanced search

Now you do ZoNi!

And hope you will like it!

Cheers,
Stefan