open related PDFs at a time.

[Mike87]

Hi

Picture that we have a lot of PDFs.
We open some related ones, after searching some keywords.
Now what?
Close them?
Next time, I'll have to do it again.

Can I assigned them as related one and open at a time?

thanks.

Mike

 

[Ron Badour]

If I understand your question right, this is the best I could come up with
using the XP GUI. Say you have four folders named tax1, tax2, tax3 and
tax4. You can do a search on tax*.pdf and once the folders are found, you
can click on File on the toolbar and save the search as taxfolders. The
next time you need to use the files, you could click on the taxfolders.fnd
file which would open the Search window and the search criteria of tax*.pdf
would already be entered. Run the search, highlight all four files and open
them. Then use the buttons on the taskbar to toggle between the four open
files. I don't think this is what you are looking for though.

 

[Nightowl]

Picture that we have a lot of PDFs.
We open some related ones, after searching some keywords.
Now what?
Close them?
Next time, I'll have to do it again.

Can I assigned them as related one and open at a time?

Hmm. . . you could do it by opening the .pdfs within Firefox (if you
have the pdf plugin installed), rather than the Adobe Reader. I don't
have IE7 but perhaps it can do something similar? In FF you would:

Open each related .pdf in a tab (either by right-clicking on the file in
Search results and choosing "open with. . ." or within FF, File | Open).

Save a Bookmark (same as an IE Favorite) for each doc in a new folder
(Bookmarks | Bookmark All Tabs). Give the new bookmark folder a
descriptive name, like Tax docs, to use the previous example.

Now whenever you need to open the related files in future you click on
Bookmarks, right-click on your Tax docs folder and choose Open All in
Tabs

 

[Mike87]

If I understand your question right, this is the best I could come up with
using the XP GUI. Say you have four folders named tax1, tax2, tax3 and
tax4. You can do a search on tax*.pdf and once the folders are found, you
can click on File on the toolbar and save the search as taxfolders. The
next time you need to use the files, you could click on the taxfolders.fnd
file which would open the Search window and the search criteria of tax*.pdf
would already be entered. Run the search, highlight all four files and open
them. Then use the buttons on the taskbar to toggle between the four open
files. I don't think this is what you are looking for though.

--
Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP 1997 - 2007








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No, I don't want to run the search again.
Besides, Windows search is very slow.
I usually search keywords of multiple PDF files. Then I will read the
files I want.
Then I will close them.
Next time I'll need to search again.
I use Edit->Search in ADOBE READER. This will be much faster than Win
Search.
All I want is to save the searched results.
Mike

 

[Nightowl]

No, I don't want to run the search again.
Besides, Windows search is very slow.
I usually search keywords of multiple PDF files. Then I will read the
files I want.
Then I will close them.
Next time I'll need to search again.
I use Edit->Search in ADOBE READER. This will be much faster than Win
Search.
All I want is to save the searched results.

It doesn't appear to be possible in Adobe Reader. Did my browser
suggestion not help?

 

[Bob I]

No, I don't want to run the search again.
Besides, Windows search is very slow.
I usually search keywords of multiple PDF files. Then I will read the
files I want.
Then I will close them.
Next time I'll need to search again.
I use Edit->Search in ADOBE READER. This will be much faster than Win
Search.
All I want is to save the searched results.
Mike

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