Search Tips

The following tips are based on Adobe Reader version 6.0. There may be slight differences in other versions. To download Adobe Version 6.0 click here.

• Type the word or phrase that you are searching for in the Google search box (eg. author, title of published text, historical figure, etc.). This will send you to a page of search results linking to all the issues of the abstracts that contain that word or phrase. You may now select any link by clicking on it.

• Once you click on a link it will open an Adobe Reader software window within your web browser. You can now search for your word or phrase within the document by clicking on the binocular icon near the top right side of the toolbar. Alternately, you may type "Ctrl"+"F" to bring the same search box.

• Click "Find". The first place where your search term occurs in the abstract will be highlighted.

• If you are not satisfied with the first result of the search and would like to search elsewhere in the document, click on the next link in the "Results" box within the search window. All the results displayed in that box are the occurrences, in order, of your search topic in that volume of the abstracts. Alternately, go to the next search result by typing "Ctrl"+"G".

• To go to a previous search result, use the same "Results" box or type "Shift"+"Ctrl"+"G".
  (Note: The keyboard shortcut takes you to the immediately preceding search result. From the "Results" box you may select any search result in the document.)

• If your search term contains diacritical marks:
  For example, if you are searching for Høyrup, then typing Hoyrup (with no slash in the 'o') will not produce correct results. Most keyboards do not contain diacritical marks, so you may not be able to type marks such as "Ø." Instead, type the part of the word that does not contain the diacritical mark (e.g., just "yrup" instead of the whole name "Høyrup").

• To select or highlight some text in the document in order to copy and paste for further searches of that text, click on the "Select Text" icon in the toolbar. To revert to the hand scroll setting, click on the icon in the toolbar with a hand made on it.

• Volumes 23 - 30 of the abstracts have a slightly different appearance than previous volumes. This does not affect the search methods.