Acrobat seems to start search after 3 characters resulting in findings containing these 3 character

[Joerg23925557yv99]

Acrobat start searching immediately after a certain amount (3??) characters are typed in the search field. Depending on document size it seems to ignore any additional typed in character which completes the 3 chars to the actual intended search string.

This results in

A) a delayed appearance of further typed characters in the search field, since Acrobat is busy with searching

B) search result containing only these first 3 typed characters ignoring following characters

Example:

search string is "diagram"

Acrobat starts search after "dia" is typed in and any further character "gram" is not seen since input is blocked. If search is finished or due to any other reason the input is accepted again, I can add missing character "gram". However as results I see "findings" like "diameter", "dialogue" and even "diagram" and obviously string "gram" all starting from 4th position is ignored.

Deleting last character(s) and typing in again dose not help. Search is not updated.

Only help is to cut and paste the whole search string (to be fast enough before autosearch starts).

How can I fix this, i.e. force Acrobat to start search if I hit the search button previous/next (or "Zurück" & "Weiter", because I have German edition)?

For a 10 pages document this might not be an issue but I deal with docs having 5000+ or 7000+ pages. This behaviour is annoying!

[Joerg23925557yv99]

Half a year and no comment on that. Sitaution has not changed to become better.

Search seems to be even worse. A 60 page schematic containing mainly figures takes ~ 10 sec to search for a string. After wrap around the search starts again for the 10 sec delay even if search string was not changed.

[try67]

Probably because no-one else experienced this issue, and it's a very odd one.

Also, you didn't provide very basic details, such as the Acrobat and OS versions.

[Joerg23925557yv99]

Thanks for this replay.

System is managed by company IT, so I think it is kind of up-to-date (with IT internal delay of course):

Win 10 21H2

Acrobat Pro DC continous release (today 2022.002.201919)

(Reader is equal in behavior and version)
CPU Intel(R) Xeon(R) E-2144G CPU @ 3.60GHz
RAM 32,0 GB

[Andrei31818420ybjt]

Probably because no-one else experienced this issue,

By @try67

I have experienced exactly the same issue for years on Windows 7 and Windows 10. I have a feeling that it started when reader was renamed to Adobe Reader DC, but I may be mistaken. I am seeing this right now on Windows 10 22H2 19045.3324 and Adobe Reader DC 23.003.20269. It does not need to be a document with multiple thousands of pages - I see it with relatively small documents about 500 pages.

It is really annoying to put it mildly.

[Peter32090252qruu · Accepted solution]

I have also been striggling with this.  In preferences/search, turn off "Enable auto complete suggestions"   Seems to have made the issue go away for me.

[Patrick35926884val9]

Thank you! This is exactly the solution needed.

[Heather269421957nwv]

Thank you so much! This has been so frustrating!

[Info27778376q2vk]

I'm afraid this solution didn't work for me! I am pretty sure I hadn't this issue in previous versions.

[Alex3853383069nm]

Click Edit, Preferences, Search, and uncheck the "enable auto complete" checkbox.

[Alex3853383069nm]

I agree, it's very annoying and at one point I was able to turn it off.  It's called dynamic search.  However, after an update this feature is back on and I can't find where to turn it off again.  I swear, programmers have no idea about real life.