Re: text edit find question

2011-11-27 Thread Anne Robertson
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,

Re: text edit find question

2011-11-27 Thread Paul Erkens
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,

Re: text edit find question

2011-11-27 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Paul, Having typed in your search, pressing Return carries out the default action, as it does everywhere on the Mac. However, you are still in the Search window, so Escape puts you back in the body of the text where the word you were looking for is highlighted. There are often several

text edit find question

2011-11-26 Thread Paul Erkens
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

Re: text edit find question

2011-11-26 Thread Gigi
Hi Paul You need VO f Then you need VO g to repeat a searchhh Sent from my iPhone On Nov 26, 2011, at 7:56 AM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com 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,