Document Search

Additional info: What I want is for every instance found to create a bookmark at that page.

You need to read the documentation more carefully. search.query() does not return any meaningful value. It merely opens the built-in Advanced Search window and executes the search you specify.

If you want to find out whether a document contains a certain phrase you need to use getPageNthWord().

Think I got it, but let me know if there might be any complications:



var numwords;

for (var i=0; i < this.numPages; i++)
{
numwords = this.getPageNumWords(i);
for (var j=0; j< numwords; j++)
{
if (this.getPageNthWord(i,j) =="word1"){
if (this.getPageNthWord(i,j+1) =="word2"){
if (this.getPageNthWord(i,j+2) =="word3"){
if (this.getPageNthWord(i,j+3) =="word4"){
this.bookmarkRoot.createChild({cName:"Bookmark Name", cExpr:"this.pageNum=" + i, nIndex: this.numPages-1})
j=numwords;
}}}}
}
}


Is there a better way to match subsequent words on a page? Also, this process takes a long time. So more importantly, is there a better way to cut down the script so that the wait time is more manageable?

First of all, you should change the final value of numwords to the number of words in the page minus the number of words you want to look for (4 in this case), because getPageNthWord will throw an exception if you're trying to access a word index which is higher than the total number of words on that page.

There's no real way to improve this, as far as I can see, except by adding a label to the pages loop (for example, "pagesLoop") and calling "continue pagesLoop" in case a match was made, which is kind of what you did by using j=numwords.