• Search For Words On Mac
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Spotlight is a desktop search utility that helps you search your Mac files. Spotlight enables you to easily lay your hands on the documents, pictures, e-mail messages, and other programs you need at any particular moment. Over time, Mac users accumulate thousands of photos, songs, school reports, work projects, contacts, calendar entries, and you name. Searching and Finding with Mac OS X This page deals with the perennial problem of finding things on your computer, and in particular on a Mac running OS X. There is no Google desktop search for the Mac, but if you have OS X 10.4 (Tiger), then there is Spotlight. How to search for a word on Mac using the keyboard shortcut. Your Mac comes with a simple shortcut for finding words on a page, whether that's in a document, in your email, or on a random webpage.

Search For Words On Mac

Preview User Guide

You can open a PDF or other document in Preview, then search for a word or any set of characters. If you can’t see the search field at the top right of the document window, drag the window’s edge (top, bottom, or sides) to enlarge the window.

1. In the Preview app on your Mac, open a PDF that you want to search.

2. Do any of the following:

   • Find text: Type a word or phrase in the search field in the toolbar.

   • Find an exact phrase: Enclose the phrase in quotation marks.

   • Group the search results by page: Choose View > Table of Contents.

   • Sort the search results by number of matches: Click Search Rank.

   • Sort the search results by page number: Click Page Order.

   • Close the search results sidebar: Click Done.

   • Find text in notes: To search notes added to the PDF (instead of the text in the PDF itself), choose View > Highlights and Notes, then type a word or phrase in the search field in the toolbar.

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