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 doesn’t need to be closed in order to continue interacting with the page.
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 to handle these situations in one command.
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 access it now has a different name.
The most useful command in the ISPF editor on mainframe computers id 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 all of the options for how you can flexibly define what you want it to search for as well as how to limit the search to selected columns and or rows of the file.
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