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Matthew J. Miner
Whatever you call it (emacs calls it electric search, CodeWrite calls it
incremental search, and Mozilla Firefox calls it find-as-you-type), it's a
feature in which searching happens in "real time", as you type.
You type "f", the cursor moves to the next f; add "i", and the system moves
to the next fi, and so on, until you are satisfied.
In emacs, for example, if I were trying to find "incremental", I would type
Ctrl-Sinc, and, by the time I had typed the "c" I would likely be at the
desired location. Way the heck a lot faster than typing, in Word,
Ctrl-Fincremental, then hitting return.
I've not been able to find this feature in Word (or Office, in general). Is
it there (any version -- properly implemented, this is a feature for which I
would definitely upgrade)?
Thanks all!
Regards,
Matthew Miner
P.S. I've actually considered writing a macro to do this. However, I've been
unable to find a way to input characters, one at a time, in such a way that
I can act on each character, one at a time (i.e., I specifically do NOT want
a dialog box). In other words, once my "search feature" is invoked, it will
collect characters (echoed to the status area) and move the cursor until the
user ends the command.
P.P.S In case it gets more people on board: emacs and FireFox both also
highlight all the other instances of the search string on the screen; a
feature I had originally thought too expensive to do. In fact, however, it
works extremely well and is wonderfully useful. Even hilighting every
instance of single characters has proven to be fast enough to be practical.
If the next instance of <whatever-you-are-searching-for> is not the one in
which you are interested, chances are you will see it nearby. And, by
keeping dialog poxes ;-) off the screen, clutter is reduced, allowing you to
focus on the task at hand, not how your system behaves.
incremental search, and Mozilla Firefox calls it find-as-you-type), it's a
feature in which searching happens in "real time", as you type.
You type "f", the cursor moves to the next f; add "i", and the system moves
to the next fi, and so on, until you are satisfied.
In emacs, for example, if I were trying to find "incremental", I would type
Ctrl-Sinc, and, by the time I had typed the "c" I would likely be at the
desired location. Way the heck a lot faster than typing, in Word,
Ctrl-Fincremental, then hitting return.
I've not been able to find this feature in Word (or Office, in general). Is
it there (any version -- properly implemented, this is a feature for which I
would definitely upgrade)?
Thanks all!
Regards,
Matthew Miner
P.S. I've actually considered writing a macro to do this. However, I've been
unable to find a way to input characters, one at a time, in such a way that
I can act on each character, one at a time (i.e., I specifically do NOT want
a dialog box). In other words, once my "search feature" is invoked, it will
collect characters (echoed to the status area) and move the cursor until the
user ends the command.
P.P.S In case it gets more people on board: emacs and FireFox both also
highlight all the other instances of the search string on the screen; a
feature I had originally thought too expensive to do. In fact, however, it
works extremely well and is wonderfully useful. Even hilighting every
instance of single characters has proven to be fast enough to be practical.
If the next instance of <whatever-you-are-searching-for> is not the one in
which you are interested, chances are you will see it nearby. And, by
keeping dialog poxes ;-) off the screen, clutter is reduced, allowing you to
focus on the task at hand, not how your system behaves.