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The Find and Redact tool allows you to search and redact text of PDF documents in the review whereby each redaction is treated as a proposed change.

1. Find and Redact
2. Further Reading

Find and Redact

To use the Find and Redact tool, click the drop-down arrow next to the Find icon   on the review toolbar and select ‘Find and Redact’. Enter your search text in the field at the top of the navigation pane and click the magnifying glass icon or press Enter on your keyboard to view the search results.
You have the option to select specific results to redact or use the ‘Select All’ checkbox to select all results. Click the icon to apply the redactions to the selected result(s):

A dialog box opens displaying how many occurrences will be redacted and the number of occurrences which cannot be redacted (if any). You also have the option to leave additional comment text:

Occurrences that cannot be redacted include any search results from existing comments/changes.

Here are a few things to note about find and redacting:

• The Find and Redact tool works on a word-by-word basis (i.e. words separated by spaces) and ignores punctuation.
• Each occurrence of the text redacted will be added as a proposed change either by single line, or by multiple line.
• The Find and Replace tool can only be used in the active PDF document in the review. Other PDF documents are not included in the search results.
• Existing comments and changes are searched but cannot be redacted (regardless of the status of the comment/change).
• 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.

Further Reading

• How to Find in Review
• How to Find and Replace