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StandardsGuy Guru Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Colorado Posts: 1156 Good Answers: 12	More and Better Search Features for CR4 06/28/2009 12:43 PM
	In CR4 we have "Search this Forum" and "Search all of CR4" and "Search this Blog" and "Search this Section". These bring up the titles of various threads when you search for a particular word. I want a feature called "Search this Thread". I want it to find the first occurrence of that word in the thread and highlight it (like the way you can search in MS Word). If that is not the one I am looking for, then I want to click somewhere and have it go to the next occurrence. This would be useful in a discussion to say to someone "You said this here (post #XX), but now you are saying something else." Would this kind of a search be possible in CR4? __________________ When the answer is simple, God is talking - Albert Einstein
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Guest	#1 Re: I want more/better search features in CR4 06/28/2009 12:44 PM
	I am using Firefox, and this feature is under the menu "EDIT" - Find (or Find Again) I am pretty sure all other browsers have similar searches.

StandardsGuy Guru Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Colorado Posts: 1156 Good Answers: 12	#5 In reply to #1 Re: I want more/better search features in CR4 06/28/2009 10:47 PM
	Guest, You are right after all. The 'edit' then 'find' does what I want. Thanks! -S __________________ When the answer is simple, God is talking - Albert Einstein

not so smart Guru Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: nj,usa Posts: 672 Good Answers: 14	#2 Re: I want more/better search features in CR4 06/28/2009 1:41 PM
	"Would this kind of a search be possible in CR4?" Anything is possible in CR4. The question that you should be asking is "is this probable?"? __________________ " vini, vidi, dormivi" I came, I saw, I took a nap (Orbes volantes exstare )

jack of all trades Guru Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 2657 Good Answers: 91	#3 Re: I want more/better search features in CR4 06/28/2009 3:30 PM
	It is already built in to most (if not all) web browsers. For example, using internet explorer to load up a CR4 page, 'CTRL+F'.

StandardsGuy Guru Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Colorado Posts: 1156 Good Answers: 12	#4 In reply to #3 Re: I want more/better search features in CR4 06/28/2009 9:43 PM
	Jack and guest, When I do 'CTRL+F' or click on the Search 'icon' at the top of the screen, it brings up Google and searches the internet, not the thread or even the post I have displayed. This is not even close to what I am talking about. -S __________________ When the answer is simple, God is talking - Albert Einstein

Guest	#6 In reply to #4 Re: I want more/better search features in CR4 06/29/2009 12:01 AM
	What internet browser are you using?

Guest	#7 In reply to #6 Re: I want more/better search features in CR4 06/29/2009 12:02 AM
	And now I see the problem is solved from post #5

edignan Guru Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: San Diego Posts: 2336 Good Answers: 48	#8 Re: More and Better Search Features for CR4 06/29/2009 10:52 PM
	And note: Ctl + F will only search the page displayed, so if you want to search something like the Bath thread (275 pages) you are back to the tools on the bar. __________________ Insert pithy quothe here - Emmett

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