Mac OS X has a number of built-in ways to take screenshots. We all like to take happy snaps at Christmas □ , but there’s no need to buy expensive software to snap the wonders you or your family produce on your Mac computer screen. Highest number of matches on a page appears at the top of the results and the rest follow in descending order. You can list by page order from beginning to end of the document, or by number of hits per page with ‘Search Rank’. OK, so you’ve got your results, what can you do with them? First of all, note that you’ve got some options above the search sidebar. Even so, it isn’t quite complete – the assiduous search-hound would probably want to add ordinals, ‘1st’, ‘first’, ‘2nd’, ‘second’ and so on, but I’ll leave that as an exercise for the reader. Also notice the various synonyms for ‘zero’ at the end of the search term. Note that “ten” is delimited as a complete word due to the number of false positives that would arise from words with those three letters ( heighten, often, tendency, etc). That would return every mention of any number in numerals or words. You could even combine this with word searches:ġ | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | one | two | three | four | five | six | seven | eight | nine | "ten" | eleven | twelve | thirteen | fourteen | fifteen | sixteen | seventeen | eighteen | nineteen | twenty | thirty | forty | fifty | sixty | seventy | eighty | ninety | hundred | thousand | million | billion | trillion | zero | nought | nil To get any number, do the same without the quotes: Remember that the quote marks indicate whole expressions, not parts. That would return every instance of any one of those digits on their own, but it wouldn’t return a page that had, say, ‘2014’ in it. For example, if you wanted to return every page that had a numeral in it, you could use Though both are valid input, one sheffer stroke will return the same as two.Īs with the logical ‘AND’ function, you can have as many terms as you want. Note for the techies: Preview doesn’t distinguish between NOR and NAND. What if you want to return all pages that have either “cause” or “function” in them? In this case, you use the ‘|’ sheffer stroke (hold down shift and hit the backward slash key, up their above the return key!). This is the same effect you get when you put the ampersand ‘&’ between words (the logical AND), but the & is automatically implied by default, so there’s no need to actually type it. Will only return pages in your pdf document that contain all three of those terms. If you add another word (or words), also in double quotes, this is effectively telling Preview to return only those pages that contain all those complete words on the same page. If you want to restrict the results to complete words – say you type in ’cause’ but you don’t want it to return ‘because’, then add double quote marks around what you type. Simply typing in a few letters will return every page that contains that string, either as a word or a partial word. Preview does all its searching in the spotlight-like filter field in the top right, and you access it either by clicking in it or hitting ‘command-F’. Feel free to open up a pdf that you can play around with as we go along. Unlike Adobe Acrobat, you won’t find any complicated advanced search boxes in Preview, but that doesn’t mean you have any less power to find exactly what you want.
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