Preview - PDF files?

Okay soo confused here. I cannot find where to post this topic.
I have an online class, and that class comes with an online textbook that is opened with the application Preview automatically.
I want to search for a specific topic, so I enter it in the search bar and it comes up with "no results found" which is nonsense. I know it's in the book, I have tried it while i can SEE the exact phrase i'm searching.
for the life of me i cannot get it to work. if i search for just one or two letters, that's fine, it shows all the pages those two letters show up on. but if i type in a word it will only search on the first page. there is 600 pages, I need it to search more than the first page!
please help, it will make my life soo much easier. How do I search more than just the first page on a PDF document?

Single word search. If it is a phrase or string of words +"enclose with quotes."+
They are many types of encoding for PDF's. Depending on the source that generated the PDF, they may not be all that compatible with Preview for search/select/copy and paste purposes.
If that is the case try an alternative as bdmarsha suggest above.
You can control-click on the document and "open with" something that may work better for you. Or extract and save the PDF as RichText and search that. Sometimes you have to get creative. I always say desperation is the mother of invention.
Command-i-click on the pdf will open the information box, there you might see what generated the PDF, this maybe a start.

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