You can find text within a single topic or a topic and
its subtopics.
To perform a quick search in the Navigation view:
- Click Search Topics (
) on
the toolbar of the Navigation view to display the menu.- To search only in the selected topic, click Search
this topic.
- To search through the selected topic and all of its subtopics,
click Search this topic and all subtopics.
- In the search dialog box, enter the query in the Search field
and click OK.
If you search only in a single topic and your search strings
are matched, the topic is displayed automatically. The
Search
this topic dialog box closes automatically regardless of
the search results.
Restriction: When you use the quick
search method to search only a single topic, the search highlighting
is always on and you cannot use the Highlight button
to switch on and off the highlighting.
If
you search a topic and its subtopics, and your search terms are matched,
the Search Results view displays the top 500 ranked results. You can
select a search result to display that topic. The words from your
query are highlighted in the displayed topic. The Search
this topic and all subtopics dialog box does not close
until you click Cancel or close the dialog window.