Some suggestions: Through the print dialogue, you can create a PDF of any file. Then by using Preview (in Panther) you can search the document for keywords or phrases, and Preview will automatically drill down to every instance of that word or phrase.
If you use Microsoft Word, you can select a section of text and use the Highlight tool to mark it a certain color. In the Find function, under Edit, you can access the advanced search functions. At the bottom of the dialogue is a pull-down menu that allows you to search Style, Format, and so forth. The last option, if you have used highlighting in your document, should be Highlight. Select it and under the search box, you will see the highlight filter. Only highlighted text will be searched. If you choose it twice it will only search non-highlighted text. If you enter no text in your search box, Find will take you from one highlighted section to the next. I don't know of a way to do this without downloading the whole thing. I'm not certain this is what you were looking for, but I hope it helps. -- Bryan C. Forrest Tech 3 - Macintosh Specialist LifeNet http://www.lifenet.org On Apr 3, 2004, at 12:47 AM, ahw wrote: > I'm learning a subject which is completely new to me. To further that > end, I am reading an extremely long document (many hundreds if not > thousands of pages long), using Mac 10.3.3 and Safari 1.2.1. Is there > a way to highlight certain parts (perhaps a sentence here, several > paragraphs there) for future reference? I don't think I want to cut > and paste into a new, separate document (using TextEdit or Stickies) > because it's very likely that later on I will want some of the detail > that is now over my head. > > If I were reading it in old-fashioned textbook form, I would use a > yellow highlighting pen, and the next time through, I would consult > the table of contents to find roughly the right chapter, then look for > my yellow marks to find specific topics. Is there a way to do > something similar without downloading the whole (huge) text? > > In my imagination, this would look something like the way Google > highlights your search terms in a cached page, but I don't have enough > confidence in my grasp of the material to think that I will remember > the exact words or terms to search. > > Many thanks, > Alex Whitman > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be April 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be April 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
