1. Choose Edit > Find & Replace > Find.
  2. Enter the search phrase into the Find box.
  3. To restrict the search to a page range, click on the hyperlink shown below:

    You can also restrict the search to a specific area.
  4. Choose a page range to search across. If you are currently editing text with the Text tool , you can choose Current story to limit the search to just the active text boxes.
  5. Click on Whole words if you need to match complete words and not fragments. If not checked, rainbow will match rainbows as well as rainbowPhotos.com.
  6. Click on Match case if you want capitalisation to be taken into account.
  7. Click on Use wildcards to use simple wildcard characters in your search:
    • ? matches a single character e.g. Hole? would match Hole9
    • * matches any number of characters e.g. ice* would match ice, iced, iceland
    • + matches one or more characters e.g. ice+ would match iced, iceland but not ice.
  1. To find text in a specific font, style or colour, press the Character formatting hyperlink.
  2. If you only want to find text in a specific font, colour or size and don't care what the text is, uncheck the Find checkbox.

    When unchecked, any text matching the Character formatting will be found. Until you specified some character formatting restrictions, the Find Next button will remain inactive in this case.
  3. Press Find Next to show the next occurrence of the search text from the current place. Each time you press Find Next, FlexiPDF will zoom in on and select the text found if Zoom-in on results is checked.
  4. Press Find All to show the Results list which will display all the locations where the search text is found.

    Double-click on an entry to view that entry in the document.
    If you are searching through a portfolio, the third column in the results table will show the name of the document within the portfolio in which the text was found.
  5. Hit Replace >> if you decide you want to replace as well as find the target text.