# About Text Search

You can search pages for specific text data.

## Searchable text

You can perform a text search in displayed documents when you are in document view, split document view and page sorter and document view.
You can search in the following types of text:

- Text of an application page
- Text from an OCR result
- Text annotations

Even when annotations are hidden, the pages containing the text annotations found will be displayed.
You cannot search in the following texts:

- Header and footer that were added in Viewer
- A text string that spans multiple pages

## Search conditions

- To search for a character string containing spaces, place double quotation marks (") before and after the character string.
- If you want to search for a text string containing a double quotation mark ("), a back slash "\", or a space, precede the mark or character with a back slash.
- The text string including delimiting spaces must not be longer than 255 characters.
- A maximum of 10 character strings entered in [Text] are saved as a history. You can select them from the [Text] menu.

Note

- If the search string contains a tab, the search result may not be correct.
- The search results may show you text strings that do not match the searched string. This is because when the DocuWorks document was created from a document in another application, separate strings were processed as one string. How the strings are processed depends on the application.

## Searching for a text string

Procedure
1.
Select [Find] from the [Edit] menu.
The [Find] dialog box appears.
2.
Select or enter [Text] to specify search conditions. Text cannot exceed 255 characters.
Note
Carriage returns and tabs cannot be entered. You cannot specify character strings consisting of multiple lines, but multiple lines may be included in the search results.
3.
Click [Find Next].
The search begins. When the search completes, the first occurrence of the search string is highlighted.
If no matching text string is found, the message "The specified text does not exist." appears.
4.
Click [Find Next] or [Find Previous] to continue the search.
Click [Close] to stop the search.
Note
To search again using the same criteria specified for the previous search, select [Find Next] (or press the <F3> key on the keyboard), or [Find Previous] (or <Shift>+<F3> keys on the keyboard) from the [Edit] menu.