100 Computer Tips in 100 Days
Tip #47 - Finding Text
Using the search engine of your choice, you've finally
found the entry you were looking for – the one with directions on how to plant
daises. You click on it, but as you scroll down the page you see all kinds of
information but none about daises. You scroll up and down and on the third pass,
if you’re lucky, you finally find what you’re looking for. Whoa, let’s stop the
madness now.
You need to know about Ctrl + f (Command + f for my Apple
friends), which is the universal keyboard shortcut for Find. You can execute a
find in almost every program and on every webpage.
Once you do your keyboard shortcut to start the find,
just type the search term. You may not actually see a place to type but hit
those keyboard letters anyway. The first occurrence in the document or on the
webpage will be highlighted. Tapping the Enter key will move you through the
document identifying more occurrences of the term.
Ctrl/Command + f, easy to remember and very helpful.
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Happy computing!
Diane
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Happy computing!
Diane
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