how can I search within a document?
I have a study guide with questions and answers that I want to look up within the document by searching a portion of the document ie by a name or subject
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 13.4
Although Pages has a Find tool, external to Pages documents, there is Apple's Spotlight for searching contents of documents without opening them in a related application.
If you have not configured Spotlight search categories or indexed your startup drive yet, you can do that via System Settings : Siri & Spotlight : Spotlight panel. Check everything but Siri Suggestions for Search Results. Then click the Spotlight Privacy button, drag the Macintosh HD icon from your Desktop onto the open Privacy window, wait a minute, and then select it and click the [-] button on that panel. When you do that Spotlight will commence indexing your drive and that may take several minutes.
From the Spotlight Tool 🔍 on the menu extras bar, or in an Open Finder Window's search field you can narrow your search to just Pages documents and the quoted string you want to find:
kind:pages "jon jones martian"
would display the Pages documents where that preceding case-insensitive string was found. There are other keywords you can use:
kind:pages font:baskerville created:>06/01/2023 "qui autem"
That finds the Pages document using that font created after June 1, 2023 and containing the Cicero Latin text "Qui autem" words. You then select the Spotlight matched filename and press return to open it in Pages.