"Advanced Search" highlighting words I didn't search for

Question

Adobe Acrobat updated on my work computer this morning. Since then, Advanced Search has started highlighting words that I didn't search for (in full or in part). This is rendering the results relatively useless, since over half the terms are words I'm not looking for.

Here is my keyword list:

Hubble ACS COS FGS FOC FOS GHRS GOODS HDF HFF HLA HRS HSP HST HUDF MIRI NICMOS NIRCAM NIRISS NIRSPEC STIS WFC3 WFPC WFPC1 WFPC2 JWST Webb CANDELS 10.17909/T9 WFIRST AFTA 10.17909/t9 Frontier HFF Roman NGR RST 10.17909 NIRSpec Nirspec NirSpec NIRspec NIRCam Nircam NirCam NIRcam

In addition to those keywords, Acrobat is also flagging words like bursty, cosmic, and understanding, as seen in the attached screenshot.

Checking the "Whole words only" box in Advanced Search cuts out relevant results, since some of my keywords are prefixes, so this doesn't solve the issue. I have also tried clearing my cache, restarting Adobe Acrobat, restarting my computer, turning off Search settings for "Enable auto complete suggestions" and "Highlight all matches", and switching between old Acrobat and new Acrobat.

Is there any way to turn off the extra flagged keywords?

Meenakshi_Negi · Answer

Hi s_3532,

Thank you for reaching out.

As you are using the search feature, it depends on the option you select for the search. As the screenshot shows, you have used all the keywords at once. Please refer to the information in the following help document to search text in the PDFs: https://adobe.ly/3KaCS1w.

Please share a screen recording of what you are trying and the results that appear, so we can check if this is a designed behavior.

Feel free to let us know if you need any help.

Thanks,

Meenakshi

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