Hi Ann, Your input was invaluable. It works. Thanks a lot. To write text, I am used to text edit, well, sort of, but to find text in a large document, I had to fire up fusion, then windows, then notepad, then get the documents, find text, and shut it all down again. Now that the trick did it, after typing text into the search field, what happens when I press enter? Is done the default button and will that do the same as find next? In that case, why are there 2 buttons for 1 thing? Slightly confused on this, but it works now. Would you mind explaining why this works?
Paul. On Nov 27, 2011, at 10:49 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Paul, > > You've almost got it. > > • Press Cmd-f to open the Find window; > • Enter the text to find in the search box; > • press Return; > • Press Escape; > • You should be on the first occurrence of the text you want. > > To find further occurrences, press Cmd-g and the word will be highlighted. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On 26 Nov 2011, at 14:56, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Dear listers, >> In text edit, I'm trying to find a bit of text in a document. I don't >> succeed. Here's what I do. >> 1. From within text edit, I hit command f to open text edits own find dialog. >> 2. In the search text field, I enter the text to find, in this case: set >> marker. >> 3. I move the vo cursor over to the find next button, press it, then to the >> done button, press it, and I'm back in the text. >> >> However, no matter what I search for, the cursor never moves from where it >> was before I entered the search command f dialog. What am I doing wrong >> here? I would think that the cursor jumps to the found text. >> >> Thanks. >> Paul. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
