Searching For Words On Mac



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.

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  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.

See alsoSelect and copy text in a PDF in Preview on MacBookmark PDF pages in Preview on MacAdd notes and speech bubbles to a PDF in Preview on Mac

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Hi I'm new here and I'm happy to be the proud owner of my first MAC computer. Loving it so far but I need to get used to some functions available to a normal PC.
Can anyone telll me if it's possible to search for spefic words within a document or website. E.g. when I search for specific items in a search engine and the websites come up, I want to be able to search for the words when I click on the search engine results. Previously for windows PC I will press the 'Control-F' function and they will search and highlight the words that come up.
Can anynoe let me know if MAC provides this function as well?
Cheers