# Step 3: Using PdfViewer Control at Runtime

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In the previous steps, you created a WPF or Silverlight application, and added the PdfViewer control and a sample PDF file to be viewed at runtime. In this step, you run the application and use the control's runtime capabilities,

Press **F5** to run the application and observe how the control appears at runtime.

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Complete the following steps to use the runtime capabilities of the PdfViewer control.

1.  In the toolbar, click the **Next Page** button to view the next page in the PDF file.
2.  Click the **Last Page** button to move to the last page of the PDF file.
3.  Click the **Zoom Out** button to enhance and **Zoom In** button to shrink the PDF view in the window. 
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	> Note that you can also choose to enhance the PDF view by selecting various options from the **Zoom** drop-down menu.
4.  Type a text in the **Find** textbox and press enter to search the same in the entire PDF file. 
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	> In case of long search operation, press Escape key to stop searching.
5.  Click the **Save** button in the toolbar to save the PDF file on your machine.
6.  Click the **Print** button in the toolbar to print the PDF file.

With this, you have completed the quick start guide for **PDFViewer** and used the runtime capabilities of the control.