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Hi there,
does anybody know how to set the search for an exact phrase?
I have to do many searches in very big documents for my job, and I try very often to make a search just writing down the phrase. But the app find any occurrence of all the single words composing the phrase, and this drives me crazy.
If I had to search a phrase on google, I would write "the phrase" and it works pretty fine. The same trick doesn't seem to work on Preview app.
Thanks
Use a unique, double quoted text string with surrounding white space (e.g. " do you sit there like ") will match a line in Dr. Seuss's Cat in a Hat. Preview does not support wildcards in its search.
You could also match this using Spotlight outside of Preview if you had PDF documents selected in the System Preferences : Spotlight : Search Results categories.
kind:pdf AND " do you sit there like "
Use a unique, double quoted text string with surrounding white space (e.g. " do you sit there like ") will match a line in Dr. Seuss's Cat in a Hat. Preview does not support wildcards in its search.
You could also match this using Spotlight outside of Preview if you had PDF documents selected in the System Preferences : Spotlight : Search Results categories.
kind:pdf AND " do you sit there like "
Spotlight will show you the document where the string is found, but it does not provide any internal detail such as the specific page(s) or occurrences. You still need Preview for an opened, internal PDF string search with page references.
Yes, it finds the right pdf document, but still doesn't drive me to the finding. And it's a nearly thirty hundreds pages document.
Thank you
Search for exact phrase on Preview app
