To open the Find dialog, click the Find… option of the Tools menu.
Adapt It opens the Main window in the four line display. That is, the source and target text show lines both with and without punctuation. (See Toggle number of source text lines or Toggle number of target text lines for more information.) It then opens the Find dialog.
This dialog allows you to search for text in the source text, the target text, both at the same time, or do a special search. See the following topics for information about each of these modes:
When you click the Find Next button, the search begins at the first pile immediately following the current active location. If Adapt It finds a match, it scrolls the Main window to show the matched text and selects it in yellow. Adapt It also moves the dialog box to either the top or bottom of the window to make the selection clearly visible.
TipWhen Adapt It has reached the end of a document in the search it does not give you a warning message but just stops. You will not see any yellow highlighted text.
To do another Find operation, you can click the Back to Start 
icon in the Tool bar to reset Adapt It back to the top of the document.
If you don't like the dialog box jumping around, shorten the main window by dragging the bottom boundary up a couple of inches; the dialog box will then stay at the bottom of the window for any subsequent matches.
NoteWhen doing a Find, Adapt It changes the Main window to four-line mode allowing you to choose whether you want to examine the line with punctuation or no-punctuation line.
Adapt It only Finds the first of multiple possible matching substrings in a word. For example, in a search for the combination of "ni", Adapt It would find the Tok Pisin word "pikinini" once instead of twice.