<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" type="topic" style="task" id="finding"> <info> <link type="guide" xref="index#reading"/> <revision pkgversion="1.25" version="0.1" date="2021-03-13" status="final"/> <credit type="author"> <name>Phil Bull</name> <email its:translate="no">philbull@gmail.com</email> </credit> <credit type="editor"> <name>Anna Philips</name> <email its:translate="no">anna.cs.au@gmail.com</email> </credit> <credit type="editor"> <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name> <email its:translate="no">kittykat3756@gmail.com</email> </credit> <include href="legal-unported.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/> <desc>Search for a word or phrase in a document.</desc> </info> <title>Find text in a document</title> <steps> <item> <p>Click <guiseq><gui style="menuitem">Edit</gui> <gui style="menuitem">Find</gui></guiseq> or <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>F</key></keyseq> or <key>/</key> to display a search box.</p> </item> <item> <p>Start typing into the search box and the search will start automatically.</p> </item> <item> <p>Use the <gui>Find Previous</gui> and <gui>Find Next</gui> buttons to move to the previous or next search result.</p> </item> <item> <p>To hide the search bar, click anywhere in the window again or press <key>Esc</key>.</p> </item> </steps> <note style="tip"> <p>To filter words by case, you can press the <gui>Case Sensitive</gui> button.</p> </note> <p>If the word or phrase that you searched for appears in the document at least once, you will be shown how many times the search result appears on the current page.</p> <note> <p>Only PDF documents are searchable. Some PDF documents are not searchable because their text is encoded in the document as an image.</p> </note> </page>