Spotlight and documents

Hello,
I have a question regarding spotlight. Every time I search a pdf file and open the file from the spotlight window afterwards, my search entry is displayed inside the pdf file as well. This is annoying because the preview zooms into the text (I don't know why) and I always have to zoom out to 100% and delete the search entry in order to read the document and flip pages normally. Is there an option to turn off the function of "searching inside the documents when opening the pdf file directly in spotlight"? Or at least, is there a way to turn off the automoatic zoom of the preview application? (I checked my option and it is set to a fixed 100%. Nevertheless, it keeps zooming in).
Thank you.

Waldfee,
I don't know of a way to turn off the zoom/search when the PDF opens. However what you could try/do would be to hold  Command down when you either hit return or click it. What this will do is open the location of the file and select it in finder. Then from there you can either double click it or  Command + o to open it. Then when it opens it will be like it would normally be, when opened from finder.
Hope that helps,
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