Searching Previewed Output

When print output is previewed, clicking the Find button displays the Find Text dialog. For details about previewing print output, see "Previewing Print Output", in the previous subsection.

The Find Text dialog enables you to select the print output search criteria.

To specify search criteria

1. In the Find Text text box, specify the text that is to be located.

2. If you want the exact match by case (where uppercase or lowercase is significant), check the Case Sensitive? check box. A search is then performed for text with the same capitalization as the text in the Find Text text box. By default, searching is case-insensitive; that is, this check box is unchecked.

3. In the Starting page number text box, specify the page number on which to start the search if the search is to start on a page other than the current page. (The search is always performed in a forwards direction.)

4. If you want the search restricted to the full word specified in the Find Text text box (for example, Adams will not find Adamson), check the Whole words only? check box.

   A search is then performed for full words that match your specified search criterion. As this check box is not checked by default, the search will match on part of a word.

5. Click the Find button to initiate the search. Alternatively, click the Cancel button to abandon the search.

If the search finds an instance of the specified text, the page containing that text is displayed and positioned so that the text is visible, with the first occurrence of the located text displayed in red.

If the search does not locate the specified text, the Print Preview Find message box advises you of this.

If text has been located, the Find Next button is enabled, so that you can locate the next occurrence of the specified text. The Print Preview Find message box advises you when no more occurrences are located.

When searching for text on previewed print output, note the following points.

• When a search has been initiated and has located an occurrence, the Find Next button remains enabled, even after all occurrences have been processed.

  Changing focus to another page of the previewed print output and then clicking the Find Next button restarts the search from that page.

• The text is searched in lines across the output. The next field to be considered is to the right of the current line or the next field to the left at a greater vertical position.

  This becomes important when searching for multiple words. A match of quick fox will succeed even if quick and fox are on different parts of the same line or on different lines if fox is the next logical text field on from quick.

• Printed output may be constructed so that A1234 is actually made up of two fields: A and 1234, for example. Using a part-word search of A1234 or A 1234 will both find the text in this example.

  However, a whole-word search of A 1234 will only succeed because physically there are two separate words. If a whole-word search fails unexpectedly, try a part-word search. A warning to this effect is displayed on the failure message box for a whole-word search.