Full-Text Searching of Companion

You can now search the full text of Teaching General Chemistry: A Materials Science Companion and the accompanying overhead transparencies. You can quickly locate any word, partial word, phase, or name anywhere in the text of the book or on the overheads.

In order to take advantage of the searching capability, you must have installed a version of Adobe Acrobat Reader with Search. The Acrobat Reader installer included on the Solid Sate Resources CD includes Searching. If you have installed Acrobat Reader from another source, open your copy of Acrobat Reader and check the Tool Bar. If the four buttons outlined in red in the figure below are not present, you must install Acrobat Reader with Search from the CD-ROM or download a copy from Adobe.

Note: Full-text searching is only available within the Adobe Acrobat Reader application. You cannot do full-text searching within your WWW browser using the PDF plug-in (this is a limitation of the plug-in). To do a full-text search, first start up the Adobe Acrobat Reader application. You should be able to accomplish this by double-clicking one of the PDF files in the CompPDF folder.

Both the Find and Search buttons are indicated in the figure. Find queries only the document being viewed at the time of the request. The Companion text has been divided into several documents for convenience. In order to search all documents, you must use the Search button and specify that the "Companion Index" be used in the search as follows:

Click the Search button in the Tool Bar, then click the Indexes... button. If "Companion Index" is not listed, click the Add... button and select the file "index.pdx" located inside the folder "CompPDF" on this CD.

For more help with searching, select Reader Guide from the Acrobat Reader Help menu. See the section titled Searching Catalog Indexes.

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