Efficiency Tip #10 – Ctrl-F

The next time you are trying to find something on a long web page, use this shortcut. Press Ctrl-F. This will bring up a search dialog box. Type in the word or phrase you are looking for on the page.

Find using Ctrl-F

Your browser will do the rest. This shortcut works in your browser, word processor and most other programs that handle text in some way. If you are lucky, the F3 key will do the same thing, but many programs have lost F3 functionality.

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One Response to Efficiency Tip #10 – Ctrl-F

  1. jschinker says:

    Although I do use CTRL-F, I love using the slash (“/”) as a find trigger in Firefox. It opens up a quick find at the bottom of the screen in the status bar, and will jump to the text you’re searching for as you type it.

    One might consider the negative TSPY implications of having to move IE’s search dialog out of the way all the time.

    Alas, as of FF 2, the functionality has been reduced somewhat, and it doesn’t work in any other programs that I know of (except vi).