Can't search PDF document using Acrobat Reader 7.0

How are you searching?

BTW: I missed something in your other question: I assumed that we were talking about Acrobat, and not Reader. Did you remove the old versions? You can still get an older version of Reader from Adobe's web page. They have most old versions available for download in an archive area. So, if you want to use Adobe Reader 6, there still is a way to get it. However, you should be able to do everything you did with Reader 6 in 7.

khkremer

Thanks for quick response. I've already accepted your prvious answer and should have been clearer about Acrobat Reader.

I removed the previous versions 5 and 6 using your directions.

Reader 7.0 opens my documents just fine.

I am searching without success for known words in the opened document using the "binocular" icon, the Find toolbar, and Control>F

None works.

I must be doing something wrong and would prefer not going back to 5 or 6.

Are you sure that the document is searchable? Did you ever search in this document with 5 or 6? Search should work the same way as with previous versions. To find out if the document is searchable, use the text selection tool and try to select some text from your document and copy it, then paste it e.g. into Notepad. Do you see the correct text? Is this on Windows?

I had searched successfully with 6.

I used the text selection tool and pasted into Word and it copied accurately.

MY OS is  Windows XP Home.

Thanks for your continuing help.

Note: I CAN search in random PDF documents on the Web.

I am having the same problem with Acrobat Reader 7.0. With 6.0 I was able to search. I download my text for school from their website in the acrobat reader format. I have gone through the exercises listed above and still no luck searching. I used the add/remove and got rid of 6.0 and 7.0 and downloaded 6.0 and then I couldn't search with it. I have Windows XP. I am at a loss and a pretty good newbie, but this has me stumped. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. I have not tried to search a pdf document on the web yet but will while waiting for an answer. Thanks

Catherine

One more thing I tried: I opened a file from an older class and was able to do a search using 7.0. Is it possible that the way the documents for this class were created is the problem? Thanks

As I stated before, the way a document is created can influence how good text can be extracted from a PDF file (which is necessary to do a search).

Thank you, I will pursue problem through the school.