Here’s the scenario: You want to do a quick Internet search but your search returns pages and pages filled with words and words.
Short of reading everything searching for your one thing, what can you do?
While every browser is slightly different, they all have a Find feature and they all access it with the shortcut CTRL+F (CMD+F on the Mac). Once your Find field appears, type in your search word and the browser will locate the next occurrence of that word on the open web page. (If you’re using Firefox, look in the bottom left margin of your browser window for the Find field.) Click ‘next’ to find the next occurrence, and so on.
Using this feature can save loads of time. I often use this feature only to discover that my search term appears only in the page’s advertising. What a pain! I’m sure glad I didn’t have to read the whole page to find that out!
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