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Search Text in PDF. Search and Highlight

The search tool is one of pdfFiller’s the latest enhancements. Using this tool, you can find a word or a phrase in a PDF document. Now you will save even more time editing or annotating your PDFs because our search tool not only finds words, but also enables you to erase, highlight, and redact them. To activate the Search tool, click the Search button on the main toolbar or press CTRL+F on your keyboard.

The search toolbar will appear under the editing tools.

Type the text you want to find in the search field. The counter will show you the total number of search terms found in the document and the ordinal number of the current search term. The currently selected term is highlighted in green, the others in red.

To jump to the next search term, click the down arrow; to go to the previous instance, click the up arrow.

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Gregory I

2016-09-25

9/15/16: Hard to find blank forms for completion, but questions are covered well by support folks. Default is yearly subscription, but support folks were able to convert to monthly subscription at desired level. Problem with changing previous form required upgrade to yearly business plan. The erase tool only works with upgraded plans.

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2017-01-04

One big feature that is missing, as is from many of these types of editing / fill in forms, is the basic "Cut","Copy", "Paste" functions. However once I got use to the program's idiosyncrasies, It has been quite helpful. Oh, one more thing, I think more detailed instruction by some useful examples of how the features can benefit in everyday design of a fill-able forms would make it that much more useful.

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How do I search and highlight text in a PDF?

Step 1: Open the PDF File. Open the PDF file that has highlighted text you need to find. Step 2: Click the “Comments” icon. In the lower-left corner, click on the “Comments” icon. Step 3: Select and view the highlighted text.

How do you search for a word in a PDF with highlights?

OCR the document if necessary. Choose Tools>Redaction. Click the Search and Redact button. Type in your search term. Click the Search and Redact button. Click Check All which will mark each result.

How do I highlight a word in search?

Choose Find from the Edit menu or press [Ctrl]+F. On the Find tab, enter the word or phrase into the Find What control. Check the Highlight All Items Found In option (shown below). Click Find All and click Close.

How can I highlight on a PDF?

Open the Comment toolbar and select the desired annotation tool. To select the drawing markup tool, open the Comment toolbar and click the Drawing Tools icon. Select the desired tool from the Drawing Tools menu.

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