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Trouble Finding Words and Terms in Adobe Documents? Not Any More.

14 Saturday Feb 2015

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Adobe Acrobat, Legal Technology

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Acrobat for Professionals Blog, Adobe Acrobat, Redact Feature, Rick Borstein, Search Function

Searching and Marking Multiple Words in a PDF, by Rick Borstein, Rick Borstein’s Acrobat for Professionals Blog

http://blogs.adobe.com/acrolaw/category/case-analysis/

Legal Professionals often need to search across a large number of documents. Finding a key fact, name or term is an important part of how you will apply your knowledge to a case.

For example, recently a paralegal sent me this email:

An attorney I work with just gave me a list of about 50 words and phrases as part of a case. I need to mark these terms each time I find them in my case documents. Help! Is there a way I can list all of the search words in a PDF?

While many folks have discovered the Search functionality in Acrobat, Acrobat 9 and below do not offer the ability to save searches or report the results.

Oddly, the only tool in Acrobat that allows you to search for terms and mark them in a PDF is part of the Search and Redact feature. . . .

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