Find on this Page

I can no longer find this command using IE7 "Find on this Page" when
searching for a word or string. Can anyone please help.
--
fred

Fred,

It's spirited away in the dropdown box next to the magnifying glass in the
far upper right of the window.

Roger


"freddy smith" wrote:

> I can no longer find this command using IE7 "Find on this Page" when
> searching for a word or string. Can anyone please help.
> --
> fred

CTRL+F
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)

freddy smith wrote:
> I can no longer find this command using IE7 "Find on this Page" when
> searching for a word or string. Can anyone please help.

Thanks Roger
--
fred


"roger" wrote:

> Fred,
>
> It's spirited away in the dropdown box next to the magnifying glass in the
> far upper right of the window.
>
> Roger
>
>
> "freddy smith" wrote:
>
> > I can no longer find this command using IE7 "Find on this Page" when
> > searching for a word or string. Can anyone please help.
> > --
> > fred

most useless. do you use your own product? the old "find" function
highlighted the word being searched for, now you have to search around the
page for the word. how do I set it so that the word or string i'm looking
for is highlighted?

"PA Bear" wrote:

> CTRL+F
> --
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
>
> freddy smith wrote:
> > I can no longer find this command using IE7 "Find on this Page" when
> > searching for a word or string. Can anyone please help.
>

Hi UPSET,

There should be a button on the 'Find' bar that looks like a
pen/hightlighter. Click it to toogle the Highlight and Find as you type
features.

Your IE8 Find dialog should look like a toolbar positioned below the Tabs
area and above the current web page.

If you have the Google Toolbar installed, you may be seeing ITs replacement
Find toolbar which is positioned at the Bottom of the current page.
If that is the case you can turn off the Google Find on page from the
Google's Toolbar options. Ensure also that you have the latest version of
the GTB (6) available from toolbar.google.com.

You may also have IE7 Pro installed (a third-party IE Addon) which has
options to replace the built-in Find on page toolbar. You can turn this off
from the Addons' options. IE7Pros Find dialog appears at the top of the
page, below the tabs area and looks identical to the built-in IE one.

Regards.

"UPSET" <> wrote in message
news:0D3C598F-F295-420F-9610-...
> most useless. do you use your own product? the old "find" function
> highlighted the word being searched for, now you have to search around the
> page for the word. how do I set it so that the word or string i'm looking
> for is highlighted?
>
> "PA Bear" wrote:
>
>> CTRL+F
>> --
>> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
>> MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
>>
>> freddy smith wrote:
>> > I can no longer find this command using IE7 "Find on this Page" when
>> > searching for a word or string. Can anyone please help.
>>

Cannot reproduce here.

If "Find on this page" isn't working at all for you...

1. See
http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/fi...t-explorer-8/;
or...

2. To avoid confusion, please begin a new thread about your specific
problems (instead of hijacking someone else's thread from November *2006*
when even IE7 had just gone RTW). State your IE version and full Windows
version (e.g., WinXP SP3; Vista SP1; Vista 64-bit SP2; Win7; Win7 64-bit) in
your first post.


UPSET wrote:
> most useless. do you use your own product? the old "find" function
> highlighted the word being searched for, now you have to search around the
> page for the word. how do I set it so that the word or string i'm looking
> for is highlighted?
>
> "PA Bear" wrote:
>> CTRL+F
<snip hijacked thread>

UPSET *hijacks* freddy's thread:

> PA Bear wrote:
>
>> freddy smith wrote:
>>
>>> I can no longer find this command using IE7 "Find on this Page" when
>>> searching for a word or string. Can anyone please help.
>>
>> CTRL+F
>
> most useless. do you use your own product?

No one here owns Microsoft or any of their products. MVPs are *not*
Microsoft employees. We are all users here just like you. So, "do you use
your own product", too, for which you never coded or were ever involved in
its development?

> the old "find" function highlighted the word being searched for, now you
> have to search around the page for the word. how do I set it so that the
> word or string i'm looking for is highlighted?

You never bothered to mention WHICH version of IE that *you* use. So are we
to assume that your hijacking of freddy's thread means you are also using
IE7 or might you perhaps be using IE8? Or some older version?

For IE8, see the example image below and notice the highlighting:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/yam4e4j

In the Find infobar that appears when you hit Ctrl+F or use the "Edit ->
Find on this Page" menu, you see the following from left to right:

X - Close the infobar.
Find - Input field for entering your search criteria.
Previous - Find the previous occurrence from the current position.
Next - Find the next occurrence from the current position.
Highlight - The button looks like a pen image. Toggles between on or
off of highlighting on the matching strings.
Options - Button shows selections to let you search on case
sensitive (Match Case) and/or whole word (Match on Whole
Word) conditions.
Match count - How many strings were found that match on your search
criteria.

So use the Highlight button to toggle the highlighting on or off. The
choice was right there all along.

For IE7, a separate dialog window appears when you hit Ctrl+F (not an
infobar as in IE8). You don't get to see all matching strings as
highlighted. The search in IE7 finds one matched string at a time. As you
click Previous or Next, the prior or next matching string is highlighted.
If there were 100 matches, you would need to hit the Next button 100 times
to get to the last one. Since no matching count is shown, you don't know
how many times you will have to click Next to see all of the matching
strings (you'll have to watch the scrollbar to see when you jumped back to
the top of the page).