Saturday, September 4th, 2010

Find on this Page

Just about all browsers have a find on page option in the menu and so adding an equivalent option using JavaScript may not appear all that useful. It doesn’t work completely the same way as the built in ones do though since it uses a separate browser window rather than a dialog box and therefore [...]

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Which File Contains my Data?

The more recent versions of Windows now have a Search option rather than a Find option but what it can do is still basically the same and so the techniques described in this article on how to find where Windows has saved the information you just changed will still work even if the option to [...]

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

Using Wildcards with Find and Replace in Word

Sometimes what you are trying to find in your Word document may not be always exactly the same thing. Sometimes the content you are looking to find and replace has minor variations but all follows a similar pattern. Fortunately, Word allows us to enter wildcard values into our find and replace strings that allow us [...]

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

The ISPF Find Command

The most useful command in the ISPF editor on mainframe computers is the Find command. This command contains options that allow you to be very specific about exactly what it is that you are searching for and what part of the document that you want to search for it in. In this article I cover [...]

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Capitalization and Replace

Unlike many of the other programs that have a find and replace option, Microsoft Word attempts to retain the same calitalisation for the relacement content as you had with the original. Capitalization and Replace </p.

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

Search Engines

The main way that people use to locate information on the web is to use a search engine. Many however do not use them properly. By typing your search query the right way you can more easily obtain the results you really want. Search Engines