How to search PDF in Google Drive

How to search PDF in Google Drive?

You can search your “My Drive” section and Google Drive web app separately. For the first method, select the files with which you want to search, then click the search icon. The results will be displayed in a list view. After that, you can filter the list by title, date, file type, label, or folder.

Searching for a single word or phrase is much easier when you use Google Drive. But, what if you want to search through a PDF file? You will need to open the document in Google Drive to search. There is no other way around it.

To search through the contents of a PDF file in Google Drive, simply click the file to open it. A pop-up box will appear asking you whether you want to search the file or download it.

Choose the search option and you will be

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How to search PDF in Google Slides?

Have you ever come across a Word document or PowerPoint file when you were searching for something else? If so, did you end up losing your search results? The same is the case with Google slides If you want to see all the results containing a particular keyword, you have to re-enter the search query.

Needless to say, when you search for a document, you can’t see the list of results using the menu option. If you want to search a PDF which is inside Google Slides, the best option is to convert the entire Google Slides file to PDF.

This way you can easily search the entire file and use other Google Slides features. Let’s take a look at the steps to convert a Google Slides file to PDF.

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How to search PDF in Google Chrome?

You can search in the basic Google Chrome search box from the omnibar. To search from the omnibar, simply type your search query in the box, and press enter. Alternatively, you can press ctrl+l, enter your search query and press enter. Using Google Chrome, you can easily find a PDF file in your Google Drive.

All you need to do is, search for the file name you are looking for. If you have more than one file with the same name, you will see a list of matching results. From this list you can select the file you need. You can also use Google Drive’s search box to locate the file.

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How to search PDF in Google Sheets?

If you are using Google sheets, you can use the Google sheets search function to search through all the sheets in your Google account. If you have a spreadsheet in Google Drive, you can use Google Drive to search the spreadsheet. Just go to the Google Drive website and search the spreadsheet.

You can search the spreadsheet by typing the text you want to search in the search box provided on the Google Drive website or you can use the advanced search option to search for text, file names, or other metadata.

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How to search PDF in Google Docs?

Google Docs has added the ability to search all of your files for specific text. However, if you want to search an individual document or spreadsheet, you can do so by using the search box in the upper right-hand corner of your screen. From there, you can select the type of document you want to search.

After you’ve selected the file, you will be able to search for text using the standard search engine. The Google Drive allows you to store and share your documents, pictures, videos and other types of files in the cloud.

To search for a particular file that you have stored in Google Drive, just go to search box and type the file name or keyword that you are looking for. You can also use the advanced search option to narrow down the search result by date, file type, file name or file size. You can also use Google Drive to search for PDF files.

After you have found your PDF

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