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kevo0822

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Jul 13, 2007
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When I use Preview's search feature to find a phrase (meaning more than one word) in a PDF, it defaults to looking for any pages that have all of those words on them... regardless of whether they're used together. I know I can just put the phrase in quotes and it'll do what I want, but I was wondering if anyone knew how to make preview search for the entire phrase by DEFAULT.
I'm studying for my board exams and constantly searching giant textbook PDFs for 2-3 word phrases... it's frustrating to have to add quotes each time (because I usually forget and have to fix it).

Thanks!
 
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