Word Search 8 Mac File System

Word Search 8 Mac File System

We are not talking about searching for PDF files on the Mac file system, though if you want to quickly locate PDF files on a Mac, the best way to do that would be to use Spotlight to find the specific file type match on the computer, which in this case would be kind:pdf, which effectively locates all PDF files on the Mac.

Of course you could first locate a PDF file, then search within that opened PDF file for a matched term using the Preview trick outlined here.

Its a handy keystroke to remember as it works in many Mac apps as the Find keyboard shortcut.

Using quote marks doesnt work, nor does putting a space before and after the word.

Still I cannot find any option in Preview for performing a case sensitive search.

In two of the four resulting pages the BKPK text (its a wiring diagram) were listed in the result and highlighted in yellow on the page.

The other two result pages gave me a beep (as in not-found) when I clicked on them.

Huh Whats with that Then I put double-quote marks around BKPK and the two pages (of the prior four) that had the highlighted found text were the only ones in the result.

Could that be an interpretation that maybe thats a possiblesuggested match an alternate search term, like when google searching for a misspelled word: showing results for received a gift, instead of recieved a gift, is shown At least lately, with google search, it gives you results and shows words of the search that were not found (shown struck out) but maybe matched the rest of what you were searching for.

This was then searchable.

Hooray. Thanks for the info that got me on my way.

Even though this is a fairly fast MacBook (so 2 mins seems like a long time for what Im about to suggest), I wonder if maybe Finder (or the OS) has to do some kind of indexing, which can take time when you first open a large PDF file (Which could be another explanation for a non-searchable, searchable PDF.).

No, it does not work if you put quotation marks around the phrase.

Whats more infuriating is that this used to work many years ago.

I am a new user of Macs and I find the articles very helpful and I found Georges reply clarified something that would have been difficult for me to figure out.

Life is one big microaggression to poor little Gnuuty, the all knowing wonder.

Great way to learn.

As for idiotshe reminds me of Dummies and all the great books written for Dummies that I dont need, as well as one that I needed: my old copy of OS X Yosemite for Dummies Even bright, smart, genius people are lacking knowledge in SOME area, and I find many of them (and us) to be more modest and polite than Mr.

Jensen. P.S.: I hope Mr.

Jensen doesnt resort to name-calling if and when he has children, and he finds out how much THEY have to learn.

The contents of this page should already obvious to anyone who has the wits to even turn on their computer.

Yes, Im smart enough to know the difference between a text-pdf and a graphics pdf.

No, none of the authors of these sorts of web pages have been able to demonstrate any knowledge beyond being able to read out of an instruction manual.

If you read the article, you will see how the Search feature works for PDF documents in Preview on the Mac.

Thanks. Your help is appreciated as my frustration level is now down a notch.

At this point I cannot work out the difference between those that can and those that cannot be searched with Preview.

Any ideas.

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Word Search 8 For Mac