In the last post, as part of our series on DocLanding’s document management features, we talked about how the document viewer lets you quickly preview documents online. In this post we’ll look at how you can search for specific words within a document displayed in the viewer.
You can search for a word or a phrase within documents like Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Adobe PDF, and other types of text files and spreadsheets – the types of documents where you could edit the text if you had the native application.
This feature can come in quite handy. Say you have a really long paper and you want to jump to the part where you started discussing something specific. Maybe your paper is on apples and the first part is on red apples but you want to go to the part where you started discussing green apples.
Once the document is open in the viewer, you would type the word or phrase you want to go to into the search field. In this case, you would type in green apple. Then you would either click the magnifying glass icon or press Enter on your keyboard. and Voila, the word or phrase is highlighted in the viewer. If the word or phrase is located many pages deep in the document, the viewer will zip to it. If you want to find the word or phrase again in another part of the document, click the magnifying glass icon or press Enter again, and the next instance of the word or phrase is highlighted.
If you’re not sure if the phrase you want to find is green apple or green apples, no problem. Entering green apple will find the next example of either one, since the viewer finds the next match to the characters you entered, regardless of whether there are additional characters following the matched characters.
It also doesn’t matter which browser you are using. This search works both in Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.
Check back for more posts on DocLanding’s document viewer and other document management features that save you time and money.
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The DocLanding Team