Can the advanced search lock into the page?

[Skullbotrock]

Is there a way to lock the advanced search onto the page so it doesn't get lost as I tab between multiple windows and documents?

At work it's common for me to have 5+ windows up on my monitor and I often need to search long PDFs. I'm extremely frustrated that everytime I minimize Adobe I need to deal with the advanced search window seperately. Is there an option I'm missing where it could dock onto the side bar or something?

[ls_rbls]

Hi,

Are you defining a catalogue for searches in more than one document?

What options do you get when you click or double click on the Arrange Windows button?

[Skullbotrock]

Clicking Arrange Windows doesn't give me anything useful, it merely puts the search side by side with the document which doesn't solve my problem of wanting the search to be docked to the document.

I'm only searching in 1 pdf at a time generally

[ls_rbls]

In which operating system are you running Acrobat Pro DC?

[Skullbotrock]

Windows 10

[ls_rbls · Accepted solution]

I searched a lot on this and there is not even a known registry setting to make this advanced search open in the same work space or inside the same document like the simple Find option.

From what I read, it is basically a feature. It detaches from the main active document to allow the user to perform large and  more complex extensive queries that may involve catalogue and indexing, for example, while giving the user the ability to continue to work in the opened document while the search is doing its job.

[N376801246pmf]

'[I]t is basically a feature': having the windows behave as they do would be intelligible as a feature only if there were also a way to make the windows behave as the original poster here proposed. For, having the current operation as the only operation can be deeply counter-productive. It does not help that the search window is themed, on my Windows 10 machine, with Windows 7/Vista decorations. (For goodness sake. All that is needed to _avoid_ that is to . . do _nothing_, i.e., not theme the window manually. Presumably too manual theming wastes resources.)