TIP OF THE WEEK – 
USING CONTROL F
You have a powerful function at your disposal when you’re in a web browser and want to search for a word or phrase. It’s called Control F, and very often you will see it written and referred to as CTRL+F.  

This performs the same way as the search function in many of the applications you use.  

While holding down the Control key (labeled CTRL), hit the F key. A search box will pop up on your screen. In this search, or find box, enter the word or phrase you want to locate. 

This function comes in particularly handy when you want to search long web pages, blogs, or online books for something specific. I find it useful in searching through family history books that are online at archive.org.

Here’s a sample exercise for you to try out. Click on the link at the bottom of this article to go to an online version of “War and Peace” in text format.

While holding down the CTRL key, hit the F key. Now enter the word Nicholas in the search box that appears, and hit enter. Nicholas occurs 631 times in “War and Peace”. See the 1/631 in the search box?  See the up and down arrows in the search box? Using the up and down arrows you can rapidly jump through “War and Peace”  to each mention of Nicholas.

https://archive.org/stream/warandpeace030164mbp/warandpeace030164mbp_djvu.txt
  The instructions and descriptions above are using the Chrome browser and a PC. If you have a PC and are using Internet Explorer or another browser, the find box may look and behave a little differently. If you have a Mac, not a problem. It’s just Command F, instead of Control F.