Searching in Windows Explorer - Help!

Hello everyone! I'm hoping someone can help me. I have made a bunch of pdf files searchable and then when I am in windows explorer and i click on search it only searches the content of the doc files. how do I get it to search the pdf files content also? Thank you for your help!

The best method is to open Acrobat and go to Edit>Search (shift-ctrl-F). Select the desired folder and complete the rest of the form. This will search all PDF files.
The alternative is to use the DOS command line tool find or findstr. If you use Win 7 and index your files (I try not to index because of speed and space), you can go to the Start>Control Panel>Indexing Options>Advanced>File Types and select the PDF content to be indexed. I have some PDFs that I can find words in and others that I can not. I guess the latter is due to encryption or such, not sure. In such cases, I was able to use the Acrobat search function to find the files, but not the DOS search. The latter would mean that even 3rd party search engines (I use AstroGrep) would not find those. So if the text is available literally, you can find it with one of the basic searches. However, Acrobat is more robust for the search of PDF files and will find them even when the file search engines will not.
If you have previous Windows versions, you have to change the file search option in the registry. However, you can still use the DOS commands. Just open DOS (Start>Cmd and enter cmd), and you can use find and findstr. To change the directory you use 'cd <directory>'. You can get help on the commands by typing 'find /?' or 'findstr /?', but I recommend just using Acrobat.

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