Hi Lennie & Mark;

Below is a note I found dealing with Adobe8.  Give this a try, it sure can't 
hurt.

Short answer: pressing F6 should get you out of the find box and back to
the document.

Longer answer: When you're using JAWS, the Find feature doesn't work in
Adobe Reader or Internet Explorer. JAWS has its own find feature which
can be invoked with Control + Insert + F, which has to be used instead.
In Internet Explorer, if you try to activate the application's find
feature with Control + F, JAWS substitutes its own find feature. In
Adobe Reader, Control + F gets the Adobe Reader find feature; you have
to remember to use Control + Insert + F instead.
Steve

Hope this helped.  Take care.
Mike



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: mark
  To: [email protected]
  Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 1:30 PM
  Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Searching in a PDF


  Hi
       I appreciate the insight. It would be nice if there were a quick fix 
to
  this situation with reading PDF documents. My next university class comes
  with a PDF textbook.

  God bless,
  Mark

  God Loves you!
  You can visit my website at:
  http://christiantraditions.info
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  http://christian-traditions.blogspot.com

  -----Original Message-----
  From: [email protected]
  [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lennie
  Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 11:39 AM
  To: [email protected]
  Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Searching in a PDF

  Hi Mark,

  I have the same problem as you when searching for something in Adobe
  Reader document.

  I asked my sighted daughter about this. She told me that what happens
  is that when the search item is found, a sighted person can just read
  on the page what he/she was searching for and can then continue the
  search if it was not what they are looking for by hitting enter again.

  So, the only way that I know of is to do a shift tab and then press
  escape to get out of the search dialog and then arrow down the page
  to find what I was searching for is the correct one, otherwise I must
  continue the search.

  I know that this method is not easy for us blind folks, but I know of
  no other way to do a search in Adobe reader document. Of course, you
  can always save the PDF document as a text document and search it
  that way to land directly on the search word, but this method doesn't
  always work out like if you find the word in a PDF document.

  Does anyone else on the list know of a better way?

  Take care.

  Lennie

  At 09:38 AM 9/16/2011, you wrote:
  >Hi
  >      I am using the adobe program for reading documents. When I do a
  control
  >F to find text, it appears that I can find the text I want but then how 
do
  I
  >switch back to reading the document where the search phrase is found?
  >      Thank you in advance for your help.
  >
  >God bless,
  >Mark
  >
  >God Loves you!
  >You can visit my website at:
  >  <http://christiantraditions.info> http://christiantraditions.info
  >Please visit my blog at:
  >  <http://christian-traditions.blogspot.com>
  >http://christian-traditions.blogspot.com
  >
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