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Donna, This feature has been around since Windows 95 and probably before, but few people know about it. It will work on any document in windows, if you are trying to find a word or phrase, and it will find all matching terms on that document. It will not however search for any items that are not on an already open document. It is great when scanning long documents for a simple phrase or such. Nice find, as most do not know it exists. Jack
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There must be something in the water again... I was telling Dave Grundy about exactly the same thing a couple of days ago. (Insert twilight zone theme here) David
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This isn't a windows command. This is an Internet Explorer feature. You are using what is known as a keyboard shortcut and most windows based programs have them. What you are doing by hitting control f, (ctrl+F)is bypassing a couple of mouse clicks. It doesn't work in Netscape or other browsers but they do have thier own specific shortcuts. The command can be found under the edit menu. If you hit alt E, you'll see the edit menu drop down. Then hit F. The find menu comes up. Ctrl+F goes directly to the find option. Alt+F, then P, then Enter, or Ctrl+P, then Enter, will print the page. If you'll notice the menu buttons across the top in Explorer, (File, Edit, View, Favorites, etc.) you'll see that one letter is underlined. This tells you what the keyboard shortcut is for that menu. Menus are accessed by Alt and the underlined letter. (Alt+F gets you the File menu and so on.) Direct commands are accessed by the control key and the proper letter or by using the underlined letter for that command. If you look in each menu beside the command, you will see a Ctrl+ and a letter beside it. That tells you the shorcut for that command. For those of you using CorelDraw, if you look through the menus you will find tons of keyboard shortcuts. Here's some examples: If you want to center align two objects to each other, select them both with the mouse then just hit Ctrl+A, then C, then Enter. Done! If you want to print, hit ctrl+P, Enter. Done! If you want to group two or more objects, select all the objects you want to group and hit Ctrl+G. If you want to undo your last change hit Alt+Backspace or Ctrl+Z. In all windows menus, Enter=Ok, Escape=Cancel. If you learn all the keyboard shortcuts in CorelDraw, you can really fly through it. Just look through the menus and it will tell you what all the shortcuts are. The more you can remember, the faster you go. Happy Hunting....
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JT, Not to be argumentitive, but go to a letter in Word or any other document in windows and hit ctrl F. See if it dosen't work for you there also. It was a windows 98 tip over 3 years ago. I don't use Netscape, but I'm surprised that it don't work there also. I do believe it was added in a download of IE as a 95to98 update before the release of the full 98, but it works all across Windows. Jack
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Right you are Jack. It works in Word, with more options than in ie. And it works in Netscape 6 as well. I'm using Windows M Thanks for the tip Donna, you rock
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I started work in QuarkExpress for Macs, (it's like Adobe PageMaker and Adobe Illustrator and CorelDraw all rolled into one) and it came with a separate shortcuts booklet and keyboard cheatsheet. Way Cool!
Having cut my teeth on this program of shortcuts and keyboard commands I clawed the doors and walls as my husband drop kicked me into CorelDraw 4 for PC's. Sure it had a few quick key commands, but NOTHING like Quark.
Now... I have Quark for PC and I have to admit I still use Corel for a lot of stuff. (The woman is NEVER happy! ) But these keyboard commands and shortcuts (F-keys) <and NO I'm not cussing here- look across the top of your keyboard! See them? F1, F2... > anyway these shortcuts are great for speed!
Thanks Donna!
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OK...Let me claify. I didn't mean to confuse anyone. The find option works in a lot of text based programs if it is written into the program. It works in Word, Wordpad, Windows Write, several HTML editors, and even works in the later versions of Netscape. Netscape has always had a find option but hasn't always used Ctrl+F to access it. The option is usually placed in the edit menu. Ctrl+F is the universal shortcut for the find menu in most text based programs. Windows Explorer (not to be confused with Internet Explorer) has a find option as well. Ctrl+F is also used for the shortcut. Only it finds files instead of text. In Windows Paint, Ctrl+F is used to view a bitmap. In CorelDraw Ctrl+F opens the special fill tools menu. In Photoshop, Ctrl+F repeats the last filter applied. The point I was trying to make is that the Ctrl+F shorcut doesn't do the same thing in all programs. It is part of the program and has to be designated for a particular menu option. Sorry if I confused some of you.
) But these keyboard commands and shortcuts (F-keys) <and NO I'm not cussing here- look across the top of your keyboard! See them? F1, F2... 
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