What is Full Text Search?
8am MyCase built-in full-text search lets you find documents based on content matches, searching the text of your documents to help you find what you are looking for quickly.
MyCase searches the content of your PDF and Word documents.
MyCase provides matching content search results with highlighting in the web browser.
How do I use Full Text Search in MyCase?
Next to the main search bar, click the three vertical dots.
Select Full text search from the drop-down.
Type three or more characters, then click Search or press the 'enter' key.
You can filter by Associated case and Time range before you click Search.
By default the 'Include firm and template documents' and 'Active records' boxes are checked for you.
If do not need these items within your search, simply uncheck the box(es) before you click search.
On the Full Text Search page, you see all matching results.
If there is a text match, you will see the match highlighted in the 'Matching Location' column.
What types of documents can I search?
You may search for text in most PDF documents and any Word document.
How do I know whether a document's content can be searched?
Not all file types are searchable. You can tell whether a document's content is available for Full Text Search by checking the FTS badge on the document details page.
