Adobe® Acrobat® Search Online Guide

This online guide provides comprehensive instructions for using Adobe Acrobat Search to perform full-text searches within PDF document collections. It covers the essential tools and commands, detailing a four-step search process: selecting indexes, defining search queries, choosing documents from the results, and viewing matches. The guide explains various techniques to expand or limit searches, including the use of wild-card characters, Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT), Document Info fields (Title, Author, Subject, Keywords), and date ranges. It also elaborates on advanced search options such as Word Stemming, Thesaurus, Sounds Like, Match Case, and Proximity, along with how to use the Word Assistant. Furthermore, the document explains how to change search preferences, interpret relevance rankings of returned documents, and troubleshoot issues related to stopwords and character exclusions in indexes.