I find this useful if I’m writing a text to use for Search Engine Optimisation purposes and want to see how many times I’ve included a particular phrase: This will highlight all of the instances of your search word in your document. Moving along the options, we have a Reading Highlight button. We’ll have a look at how that works in just a moment. If you choose Find whole words only, it will look for only that text, not that text included in a longer word. If you choose Match case, it will search for only those words in the exact same case as the one in the search box. For the moment, we’re going to concentrate on just these two (see the article on advanced searching for the other options). Here, you have options to match the case, find whole words only, etc. That’s great, but what if you want more accurate searching? Press the More > button for more options: Word will highlight the text you’re looking for. Enter the text you wish to search for, in this case Richard Branson, and press the Find next button (or the Enter key). It will usually appear to the side of the document, so as not to obscure the text. You’ll then be presented with the basic search box: When you have a Word document open, to bring up the search dialogue box, press the Control key and the F key at the same time. Search for a name to check how it was spelled last time.Search for chapter headings in a book / thesis when I want to check they have a consistent style.Search for tables / figures and references to them in a document to make sure they match up.Search for a place in a text by a word in its heading.It also offers the largest range of options for searching, and we’re just going to look at the most common today but watch this space for an article on advanced searching. Word is one of the places where searching is most useful. Let’s go through the different places you can use this. If you’re looking at a Word, Excel or Powerpoint document, a web page or, in fact, many other things, you will now be able to search for text in that document, on that page, etc. You will have one or two Ctrl keys on your keyboard (I have two) and it’s usually easiest to press Ctrl, hold it down, then press F. It’s the way in which key combinations are expressed. What does Ctrl-F mean?Ĭtrl-F is shorthand for “ press the control key and the F key at the same time“. We’re going to look at an overview of the basics in this article, then I’ll go into more detail on advanced searching and replacing in another one. Today we’re going to learn about the wonders of Ctrl-F and how it can help you to search for text almost anywhere.
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