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NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Cloud. Using Confluence Server? See the corresponding suggestion.
Since the introduction of the new preview feature in Confluence users are complaining about not being able to search within the shown/previewed document. They are used to this feature from all other PDF viewers (Adobe, Chrome etc.).
This is especially important as it is not that easy for the unexperienced user anymore to download the PDF and open it with their preferred viewer.
We've already discussed this feature request with Wendell K. in an enterprise customer interview back in June.
Btw. the implicit user expectation is that the same inline document search works for MSWord/PowerPoint/Excel previews as well.
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[CONFCLOUD-45382] PDF Preview should have inline document search
This feature would be a big help for us as we publish our policies on Confluence Cloud as PDFs. Users can find the correct policy, but once they have been directed to it they cannot search for the keywords they entered without downloading the document and using some other product, which is very inconvenient.
This feature is very essential if we see in view of user experience. Because it seems it is very difficult to search keyword when the number of pages in PDF file is more. Confluence should treat this issue as urgent and most important..!
Disabling the preview is often just asked for to solve the problem of not beeing able to use search in PDFs.
Document search is a big usablility concern and as document + information management system, this is (was!) a main feature of Confluence.
Searching with CTRL+F doesn't always work smoothly, and navigating forward and backward can be cumbersome. Implementing a better search function with the PDF macro would make it much easier for our users.