Searching additional criteria

Nitro PDF Professional offers you many options for searching additional criteria derived from PDF Document Properties. Document Properties appear in the Pages pane when you click the Properties tool at the top of the pane.

To search additional criteria:

1. Press Control + F to open the Search pane.
2. Type the word or phrase you want to search in the Search Phrases text box.
3. Click the Search in Folder tool.
4. Click the plus (+) symbol to open drives and folders revealing nested folders.
5. Click a folder you want to search.
6. Click the red square adjacent to the folder you selected or press Return or the Num Pad Enter key. The pane changes, offering you more criteria.
7. Click New Criteria in the Search pane. A drop down menu displays all the Document Properties that Nitro PDF Professional can search. Note that a second row is automatically spawned when you click New Criteria.
8. Click one of the items in the drop down menu. Something that you know exists on some PDF files you have such as Author name or Title.
9. The default in the second box adjacent to the option you selected appears as Includes that will report results for the criteria included in the additional criteria item you selected. Leave this box at the default.
10. Type your criteria in the third text box.
11. Click New Criteria again. An additional row is automatically spawned.
12. Select another Document property from the drop down menu.
13. Click the box where you see Include appear. A drop down menu opens.



14. Select Exclude from the menu.
15. Add your search criteria in the third box.
16. Click Search Now or press Enter or the Num Pad Enter key.
17. The results are reported in the Result window. Click any item to open the PDF containing the found results.