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2. The Search panel opens. Search the text strings or search by patterns as needed.
3. After the search completes, you can see a Highlight icon next to the Save
button in the Search panel, a check box in front of each searched instance
and each file path, and the Check All option above the New Search button.
4. Select the check box of the instance you want to highlight and click the Highlight
icon . (Tip: Click the check box in front of a file path to select all instances found in
the file; select the Check All option to select all instances found in the search.)
5. (Optional) you can also change the highlight color as needed. Change the color
from the appearance properties of the markup and set the properties as default.
(For details, please refer to Change the appearance of Text Markups.) Then
perform a new search to apply the new color to searched results.
Searching PDF indexes
If your PDF document or document collections include a full-text index, you can
improve your search efficiency by simply searching the index for target words rather
than each document separately. Steps are as follows:
 Click the Search or replace icon next to the Find box and choose Advanced
Search to open the Search panel.
 From the Where would you like to search dropdown list, choose Select Index to
add indexes.
 In the pop-up Index selection dialog box, click Add to add an index. All the indexes
you added will be displayed in the index list in Index selection dialog box. You
can select an index, and click Info to get its file information, or click Remove to
remove it from the list, if necessary. Once added, the index files will be marked as
checked for you to execute index search by default. Before application, review the
indexes in the list, and uncheck the unnecessary one. Upon completion, click OK
to close the Index selection dialog box.
 When you have successfully added the indexes, the Currently Selected Indexes
option will be selected by default. If you want to search the currently selected
indexes next time, you can also choose this option from the Where would you
like to search dropdown list directly.
 Follow the steps in “Searching for text and patterns” to proceed with your search.
Note: If the index file is not available or does not work, the search will fail. To create or
revise an index, please refer to Create PDF indexes.