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Easily search and highlight specific text in PDF documents with our Search and Highlight Text in PDF feature. This powerful tool allows you to quickly find and annotate important information within PDF files, saving you time and effort in your daily tasks.

Key Features:

Efficient text search: Our feature enables you to search for specific words or phrases in large PDF documents, making it easy to locate information quickly.
Smart highlighting: Once you find the desired text, our tool will automatically highlight it, making it visually prominent and easy to identify.
Customizable color settings: You can personalize the highlight color to suit your preferences, ensuring easy differentiation between multiple search results.

Potential Use Cases and Benefits:

Academic research: Easily search and highlight relevant information in research papers, articles, or textbooks, improving your productivity and assisting in thorough analysis.
Document review: Efficiently review legal documents, contracts, or lengthy reports by searching for specific terms and highlighting important sections, making it easier to navigate and understand the content.
Studying and note-taking: Simplify your study process by quickly finding and highlighting key concepts in educational materials, allowing for easier review and revision.
Data analysis: Save time in analyzing data-driven reports by identifying and highlighting specific insights or patterns within complex tables or charts.

By utilizing our Search and Highlight Text in PDF feature, you can quickly and effortlessly locate and annotate important information within PDFs, enhancing your productivity and streamlining your workflow. Stay organized and focused with our user-friendly tool, designed to solve your text-searching challenges.

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Instructions and Help about Find and Highlight in PDF

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The search tool is one of pdfFiller’s the latest enhancements. Using this tool, you can find a word or a phrase in a PDF document. Now you will save even more time editing or annotating your PDFs because our search tool not only finds words, but also enables you to erase, highlight, and redact them. To activate the Search tool, click the Search button on the main toolbar or press CTRL+F on your keyboard.

The search toolbar will appear under the editing tools.

Type the text you want to find in the search field. The counter will show you the total number of search terms found in the document and the ordinal number of the current search term. The currently selected term is highlighted in green, the others in red.

To jump to the next search term, click the down arrow; to go to the previous instance, click the up arrow.

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How to Use the Search and Highlight Text in PDF Feature

The Search and Highlight Text in PDF feature is a powerful tool that allows you to quickly find and highlight specific text within a PDF document. Follow these simple steps to make the most out of this feature:

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Open the PDF document you want to search and highlight text in.
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Click on the search bar located at the top right corner of the screen.
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Type in the keyword or phrase you want to search for.
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Press Enter or click on the search icon to start the search.
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pdfFiller will automatically highlight all instances of the searched text within the document.
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To navigate through the highlighted text, you can use the arrow buttons located next to the search bar.
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If you want to remove the highlights, simply click on the 'Clear Highlights' button.
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You can also customize the highlight color by clicking on the 'Highlight Color' button and selecting your preferred color.
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To save the changes made to the document, click on the 'Save' button located at the top left corner of the screen.

With the Search and Highlight Text in PDF feature, you can easily find and highlight important information within your PDF documents, making it easier to navigate and reference specific content. Start using this feature today and enhance your productivity!

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