This section explains how to conduct a basic or advanced search of a single PDF book or the entire PDF collection. Use these procedures if indexed searching is not available or if you want to limit your search to a single book or to a subsection of the collection. The following topics are covered:
This section explains how to conduct a basic search of a single PDF book and how to narrow the search results by conducting an advanced search of a single PDF book. The following procedure explains how to conduct a basic search of a single PDF book.
Enter the word or phrase that you want to find in the Find toolbar, and press Enter.
The search term is highlighted.
To see another occurrence of the search term, click Find Next or Find Previous.
Display the Search window in one of two ways:
Select Edit
Search from the main menu bar
Click the arrow in the Find toolbar, and select Open Full Reader Search.
The Search window appears.
In the search field labeled What word or phrase would you like to search for?, enter the word or phrase that you want to find.
Click the arrow to the right of the Return results containing field, and select one of the following options:
Match Exact word or phrase
This search option finds the exact form and the plural form of each word that you type in the search field. The option searches for the entire string of characters, including spaces, in the order in which they were typed. For example, searching for element will find
element, elements
Element, Elements
ELEMENT, ELEMENTS
Match Any of the words
This search option finds any of the words that you type in the search field as well as different forms of each word. For example, searching for metal plasticity will find
metal plasticity, Metal Plasticity
metal, Metal
plasticity, Plasticity
viscoplasticity, Viscoplasticity
Click the arrow to the right of the Look In field, and select The Current PDF Document.
Select any of the additional search criteria:
Note: Some of the search characteristics available in Adobe Reader to refine a search are not appropriate for Abaqus documentation searches.
Whole words only
This search option matches the exact form of each word that you type in the search pane. For example, searching for element will find
element
Element
ELEMENT
Proximity
This option finds search terms that are within 900 words of each other. This option is available only for multiple document searches or index definition files and if Match All of the words is selected.
Case-Sensitive
This option finds only occurrences of the words that are in the same case as the word or words you type in the search field.
Stemming
This option finds words that contain part (the stem) of the specified search word or phrase when searching in the current file or Acrobat indexes. For example, stemming will find instances of the search word that end in "ing," "ed," "x," "ion," and so on.
Note: An exception is the ending "er." Words ending in "er" are excluded from the search results.
execute, executes
executed
executing
executable, executables
execution
Click Search.
The search pane displays a list of the results.
Click an item from the results list to display the PDF page. Continue clicking items in the results list, or click Find Next or Find Previous to see the next occurrence.
This section explains how to conduct a search of the entire PDF collection.
Display the Search window in one of two ways:
Select EditSearch from the main menu bar.
Click the arrow in the Find toolbar, and select Open Full Reader Search.
The Search window appears.
In the search field labeled What word or phrase would you like to search for?, enter the word or phrase that you want to find.
In the field labeled Look in, select the directory containing the PDF collection.
Click the arrow to the right of the Return results containing field, and select one of the following options:
Match Exact word or phrase
This search option finds the exact form and the plural form of each word that you type in the search field. The option searches for the entire string of characters, including spaces, in the order in which they were typed. For example, searching for element will find
element, elements
Element, Elements
ELEMENT, ELEMENTS
Match Any of the words
This search option finds any of the words that you type in the search field as well as different forms of each word. For example, searching for metal plasticity will find
metal plasticity, Metal Plasticity
metal, Metal
plasticity, Plasticity
viscoplasticity, Viscoplasticity
Select any of the additional search criteria:
Note: Some of the search characteristics available in Adobe Reader to refine a search are not appropriate for Abaqus documentation searches.
Whole words only
This search option matches the exact form of each word that you type in the search pane. For example, searching for element will find
element
Element
ELEMENT
Proximity
This option finds search terms that are within 900 words of each other. This option is available only for multiple document searches or index definition files and if Match All of the words is selected.
Case-Sensitive
This option finds only occurrences of the words that are in the same case as the word or words you type in the search field.
Stemming
This option finds words that contain part (the stem) of the specified search word or phrase when searching in the current file or Acrobat indexes. For example, stemming will find instances of the search word that end in "ing," "ed," "x," "ion," and so on.
Note: An exception is the ending "er." Words ending in "er" are excluded from the search results.
execute, executes
executed
executing
executable, executables
execution
Click Search.
The search pane displays a list of the results.
Click an item from the results list to display the PDF page. Continue clicking items in the results list, or click Find Next or Find Previous to see the next occurrence.