Using ABAQUS Online Documentation  


6.2 Conducting a search of a single PDF book or the entire PDF collection

This section explains how a basic or advanced search of a single PDF book or the entire PDF collection. Use these procedures if indexed searching is not available or if you want to limit your search to a single book or to a subsection of the collection. The following topics are covered:


6.2.1 Conducting a basic or advanced search of a single PDF book

This section explains how a basic or advanced search of a single PDF book.

To conduct a basic search of a single PDF book:

  1. You can access the search function in two ways:

    • Select EditSearch from the main menu bar

    • Click the icon on the toolbar

    The Search PDF pane appears.

    Figure 6–2 The Search PDF pane for searching a book using the basic search options.

  2. In the search field labeled What word or phrase would you like to search for?, enter the word or phrase that you want to find.

  3. Specify that you want to search In the current PDF document.

  4. Select any of the following search options:

    Note:  Some of the search options are not appropriate for ABAQUS documentation searches.

    Whole words only

    This search option matches the exact form of each word that you type in the search field. For example, searching for element will find

    • element

    • Element

    • ELEMENT

    Without this option, you might also find words such as "elements," "elemental," and "elementary."

    Case-Sensitive

    This option finds only occurrences of the words that are in the same case as the word or words you type in the search field.

  5. Click Search.

    The search pane displays a list of the results in page order, with a few words of the context in which the search term or phrase appears.

  6. Click an item from the results list to display the PDF page. Continue clicking items in the results list, or select EditSearch ResultsNext Result to see the next occurrence.

You can use the following procedure to narrow the search results when conducting a search of a single PDF book:

To conduct an advanced search of a single PDF book

  1. Click Use Advanced Search Options at the bottom of the search pane.

    The advanced search options appear.

    Figure 6–3 The Search PDF pane for searching a book using the advanced search options.

  2. Click the arrow to the right of the Look In field, and select The Current PDF Document.

  3. Select any of the additional search criteria.

    Note:  Some of the search criteria are not appropriate for ABAQUS documentation searches.

    Whole words only

    This search option matches the exact form of each word that you type in the search pane. Searching for element will find

    • element

    • Element

    • ELEMENT

    Without this option, you might also find words such as "elements," "elemental," and "elementary."

    Case-Sensitive

    This option finds only occurrences of the words that are in the same case as the word or words you type in the search pane.

    Stemming

    This option finds words that contain part (the stem) of the specified search word or phrase when searching in the current file or Acrobat indexes. For example, stemming will find instances of the search word that end in "ing," "ed," "x," "ion," and so on. A single exception is the ending "er." Words ending in "er" are excluded from the search results. For example, searching for any form of execut will find

    • execute, executes

    • executed

    • executing

    • executable, executables

    • execution


6.2.2 Conducting a basic or advanced search of the entire PDF collection

This section explains how a basic or advanced search of the entire PDF collection.

To conduct a basic search of the entire PDF collection:

  1. You can access the search function in two ways:

    • Select EditSearch from the main menu bar

    • Click the icon on the toolbar

    The Search PDF pane appears.

    Figure 6–4 The Search PDF pane for searching a collection using the basic search options.

  2. In the search field labeled What word or phrase would you like to search for?, enter the word or phrase that you want to find.

  3. Specify that you want to search All PDF Documents in a location.

  4. Click the arrow to the right of the All PDF Documents in field, and select the location in which you want to search.

  5. Select any of the following search options:

    Note:  Some of the search options are not appropriate for ABAQUS documentation searches.

    Whole words only

    This search option matches the exact form of each word that you type in the search field. For example, searching for element will find

    • element

    • Element

    • ELEMENT

    Without this option, you might also find words such as "elements," "elemental," and "elementary."

    Case-Sensitive

    This option finds only occurrences of the words that are in the same case as the word or words you type in the search field. For example, searching for ELEMENT will find "ELEMENT." Without this option, you might also find words such as "element," "elements," "Element," "elemental," and "elementary."

  6. Click Search.

    The search pane displays a list of the results nested under the document names and paths.

  7. To expand a list of results for a document, click the plus (+) sign next to the document name.

  8. Click an item from the results list to display the PDF page. Continue clicking items in the results list, or select EditSearch ResultsNext Result to see the next occurrence.

You can use the following procedure to narrow the search results when conducting a search of the entire PDF collection:

To conduct an advanced search of the entire PDF collection:

  1. Click Use Advanced Search Options at the bottom of the search pane.

    Figure 6–5 The Search PDF pane for searching a collection using the advanced search options.

  2. Click the arrow to the right of the Look In field, and select the location in which you want to search.

  3. Refine your search by using the following document characteristics that may be available:

    Note:  Some of the characteristics are not appropriate for ABAQUS documentation searches.

    Title

    Limit the search results to documents that contain or do not contain a specific title.

    Subject

    Limit the search results to documents that contain or do not contain a specific subject.

  4. Select any of the following search options:

    Note:  Some of the search options are not appropriate for ABAQUS documentation searches.

    Whole words only

    This search option matches the exact form of each word that you type in the search field. For example, searching for element will find

    • element

    • Element

    • ELEMENT

    Without this option, you might also find words such as "elements," "elemental," and "elementary."

    Case-Sensitive

    This option finds only occurrences of the words that are in the same case as the word or words you type in the search field. For example, searching for ELEMENT will find "ELEMENT." Without this option, you might also find words such as "element," "elements," "Element," "elemental," and "elementary."

    Stemming

    This option finds words that contain part (the stem) of the specified search word or phrase when searching in the current file or Acrobat indexes. For example, stemming will find instances of the search word that end in "ing," "ed," "x," "ion," and so on. A single exception is the ending "er." Words ending in "er" are excluded from the search results. For example, searching for any form of execut will find

    • execute, executes

    • executed

    • executing

    • executable, executables

    • execution