

Here are some tips if you discover that you cannot do full text searches of PDF files. The latest: in some cases, PDF search stops working in Windows 8 64-bit. Somehow, though, Adobe keeps making life difficult – either by not observing Windows search protocols ( PDF portfolios are not searchable in Windows without opening each one individually), or by introducing bugs that break the ability to search PDFs.

Every Explorer window has a search box in the upper right corner it’s almost always easier to type in a search term than to look through a long file list. Windows has had files indexed and searchable for a long time. A business cannot function without being able to search through the contents of all of its files – PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX – and retrieve documents without difficulty. More and more business assets are stored in PDF format – email archives, scanned correspondence, document versions sent for review, law office discovery, and much more.

Adobe’s PDF format has become as important in offices as Microsoft’s Office file formats.
