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Please Review Administrators can define user types for document reviewing.

The Find tool in the Please Review review interface allows you to search the content of Word and text-based PDF documents in the review together with associated comments and proposed changes.

1. Find in Review
2. Find Options
3. Further Reading

Find in Review

Selecting the Find icon   from the review toolbar opens the text search field at the top of the navigation pane (or you can select ‘Find’ from the navigation drop-down list). Enter your search text and click the magnifying glass icon or press Enter on your keyboard.
Search results are listed in the navigation pane with the search term highlighted in the results and in the document for ease of viewing:

Here are a few things to note about find in review:

• Clicking a search result in the navigation pane will scroll the document to the selected paragraph.
• Accepted changes are considered part of the document and are therefore included in the search whilst closed (rejected) comments and changes are not searched.
• If the review contains multiple Word and/or PDF documents, all documents will be included in the search.
• The standard search works on a word-by-word basis (i.e. words separated by spaces) and ignores punctuation. For example, searching 'find this text' will return instances of the three words together in that order, ignoring additional spaces and punctuation.
• If a filter is applied when carrying out a search, a warning message will appear notifying the user that not all results may be visible.
• Searches will return results using the exact words. A ‘*’ may be used as a wildcard anywhere in the search string but Boolean searching is not supported.
• A search will only include text visible to the review participant. Therefore, it will search zones locked for editing, but not zones that are hidden to the participant.
• Any hidden text in the Word document will be masked and displays as ‘Hidden Text’ in the navigation pane.
• Click the Find icon   from the review toolbar to clear the search and return to the review.

Find Options

Selecting ‘Find Options' from the Find icon will open additional options to make the search:

1. Exclude comments and open changes.
2. Case sensitive.
3. Accent sensitive.
4. Advanced.

Further Reading

• How to Find and Replace
• How to Find and Redact