Find
Hotkey
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Ctrl+F (show and focus the find tab)
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Ctrl+F (hide the find tab if it is showing and has focus)
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Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Up (show and focus the find tab)
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Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Down (hide the find tab if it is showing)
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Right-click menu
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Search/Find
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The find tab can be found (heh) in the bottom frame. It allows you to search for
instances of certain text in the current document or in all documents in your notebook.
Searching a Single Page
To search for all instances of text within a single
page,
type your search text into the box in the
Find tab, ensure the
All pages
check box is not checked, then click the
Find button. Pressing the enter
key in the text box will do the same as clicking the
Find button.
Your matches will show up in a list below the search box.
You can see in the screen capture above that there are several columns.
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Match - sequential number assigned to each match. This just makes it easy
to scan the list.
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Page - the title of the page where the match occurs. When searching a single
page, this column is the same for all matches.
- Pos - character position of the match in the page where it was found
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Context - a sample of text containing a few words before and after the match
so you can quickly see if it is the match you want.
Notice also the search summary below the list of matches. In the above screen capture
it says,
"Found 86 matches for "moby" in 1 of 1 pages."
Searching All Pages
To search all pages, do the same as when searching a single page, except be sure
the
All pages checkbox is selected.
Have a look at the
Page column in the screen capture below. Notice that
matches were found in both the
Lorem Ipsum page and the
Moby Dick
page. That's only because I planted a few Mobys in the
Lorem Ipsum page
to demonstrate the
All pages search feature.
Navigating Search Results
Navigation of search results is the same whether you searched just one page or all
pages. And as with most things in PieceWorx Writing Studio, there are a few different
ways to do it.
Mouse
When you double click a match row using the mouse, the row will become highlighted,
the appropriate page will be loaded into the editor and positioned so the match
is visible and highlighted. Easy breezy, right.
Double-click another row et Voila!
Previous/Next Buttons
You can also navigate the matches by using the mouse to click the previous/next
navigation buttons at the top right of the Find tab.
When you click a button, it will do all the same things as double-clicking a row
in the match results list. The match row will be highlighted in the results list
and the page and and match content will be shown in the editor.
Just click the right arrow for the next match or the left arrow for the previous
match. When you reach the end of the list it will jump you back to the first item
in the match results list. Similarly, if you are navigating in reverse direction
and you reach the first result, it will jump you to the last item.
Up/Down Arrows
Hotkey
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Ctrl+F (return to find tab)
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Hotkey
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Down arrow (enter results list, highlight next match)
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Hotkey
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Up arrow (highlight previous match)
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Hotkey
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Enter (select active match)
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If you are like me, you prefer to minimize the use of the mouse. Or perhaps using
the mouse is just inconvenient because you are composing on your laptop or a Windows
tablet. One option to avoid the mouse is to use the up and down arrows to navigate
the
Find results.
First make sure the cursor is focused in the text box on the
Find tab.
You may need to type
Ctrl+F to return focus there if, for example, you
were just editing a previous match.
Let's suppose match number 78 is highlighted. Now press the down key on your keyboard
one time. It will appear that nothing happened, but what actually happened is that
row 78 now has focus. If you press the enter key, match 78 will be reloaded, but
don't do that just yet.
So, continue by pressing the down arrow a second time. Observe that the next match,
row 79, becomes highlighted. To display that match in the editor, just hit the enter
key. Focus jumps to the editor and you can start typing to edit the match. When
you are done just type
Ctrl+F again to return focus to the search box in
the
Find tab. Press the down arrow on your keyboard twice and the next
match, 80, is highlighted.
Try this out a few times to get the hang of it and you'll see why I love this feature
for those of us who prefer to minimize use of the mouse.
Previous/Next Hotkeys
Hotkey
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Ctrl+G (Find next match)
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Hotkey
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Ctrl+Shift+G (Find previous match)
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Hotkey
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F3 (Find next match)
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Hotkey
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Shift+F3 (Find previous match)
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The hotkeys for previous match and next match do the same thing as the previous
and next buttons described above.
One big advantage of these hotkeys is that they are active from the
Find
tab, the
Editor window or the
Notebook tab. So, if, for example,
you want to jump from match to match in the editor window without ever going back
to the
Find tab, you can.
NOTE:
The Find tab must be visible for these hotkeys to work.