When you have a file open in the file viewer, you can search inside it for a word or phrase and jump to every place it appears. It's the quickest way to check a disclosure, a rate or a claim in a long PDF, a slide deck or a recorded video. To search across your whole library instead, see Search.
Open in-file search
Open any file to bring up the file viewer, then use either of these:
Click the Find tab in the right sidebar.
Press Ctrl + F (Windows) or Command + F (Mac), or click the magnifying glass in the viewer toolbar (Search in document). A Search in document... box opens in the toolbar and the Find tab opens alongside it. Type your phrase and press Enter to run it in the Find tab. Press Esc to close the toolbar box.
Run a search
Type a word or phrase in the box at the top of the Find tab.
Press Enter or click Search. If you just stop typing, the search also runs on its own after a couple of seconds.
Review the results. The count at the top shows how many were found (for example, 12 results found). For PDFs and documents you also see how many pages were searched.
Click any result to jump to it.
Each result shows your match highlighted with a little of the surrounding text, plus a label saying where it is, such as Page 4, Audio at 1:23 or On-screen at 0:45.
What you can search
PDFs, Word documents and PowerPoint presentations: the text on every page or slide. Clicking a result takes you to that page and highlights the match.
Videos: what is said (the transcript) and text that appears on screen. Results are labeled Audio at or On-screen at with a timestamp. Clicking a result jumps the video to that moment and pauses it.
Audio files: the transcript, with the same jump-to-timestamp behavior.
Images: text Warrant read from the image. Where Warrant can locate the text, markers appear on the image; click a marker to highlight its result.
Spreadsheets and other files: the text Warrant extracted from the file.
While the Find tab is open on a video or audio file, each match also appears as a marker on the player's timeline. Click a marker to jump to that moment.
Tip: to read a whole transcript rather than search it, use the Speech tab, which appears on audio and video files.
How matching works
Search is not case-sensitive. "APR" finds "apr" and "Apr".
It looks for the exact characters you type. Extra spaces and line breaks between words don't matter, so a phrase that wraps onto a new line is still found.
Up to 100 matches are shown for a single search. If you're searching for a very common word, add more words to narrow it down.
Highlights and markers clear when you switch to another tab.
If search isn't available yet
Warrant reads the text, transcript and on-screen text of a file after it's uploaded. Until that finishes, the Find tab shows a message such as Extracting transcript from video... and Search will be available once extraction completes. Check back in a moment.
If the tab says there is no extracted content (for example, No transcript available for this video), Warrant couldn't find text in the file. A video with no speech or an image with no text has nothing to search.
Who can use it
Anyone who can open a file can search inside it. Find isn't shown on Reach social posts.
Learn more about the rest of the viewer in File Viewer Introduction.