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<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>