Usually when i want to find something in a large pdf file i will just type the word or phrase into the find box and adobe will let me know where the word occurs in the document. Checked for adobe reader updates and it is up to date. Printing fine from all other appsprograms nothing happens when i hit printer on toolbar, control p, not choose it from file menu. However, i use ctrl f quite often and it doesnt work for me with firefox. Cannot search the page in edge solved windows 10 forums. Then open a new notepad document and press ctrl v to paste the document in a new notepad document, then see if ctl f will work.
In any case it is working now, its like the settings icon in the start menu it did not even show up then it did but did not work. However, it finds 2 occurrences when searching current document or current project i see that the total files searched in the output window is a random number, and does not correspond to the number of files in my solution is much smaller. Using adobe reader xi on my windows 7 laptop, with some pdf files i am able to use the find ctrl f feature successfully and other pdf files that i receive from someone else the find feature returns no results for a word or phrase search even when i can see that it exists. I studied forums and found that maybe ctrl g or ctrl m might work instead. The word keyscombo is only available while word is open and the active window. I have copied the text off and put it in a text editor, there are no unusual characters being used. Ctrl i does not work when trying to enter into raid configuration utility jump to. Its frustrating because now i cant do a search for a specific word to instantly get to that slide. A scanned pdf is the scanned image, picture, of a page of text.
Keyboard problem ctrl and shift keys dont work correctly. B250, i cannot do a ctrl f and locate any of those names somehow. When our engineers search a pdf drawing for a part number, it will find and highlight the wrong numbers. Seems like something fundamental about my windows settings. But when i try this on this one pdf it says it doesnt appear in the document. I disabled all of the addons and restarted and confirmed it still worked. Foxit reader users can use the shortcut ctrl shift f or select tools search to open the search form of the program in a sidebar. All the shortcuts, like ctrl t for opening a new tab, ctrl r or f5 for reloading, or ctrl w for closing a tab, do not work on those pages. Ctrl f search is a different thing altogether it doesnt run on indexes but on raw text, it doesnt take any parameters etc. The search window offers more options and more kinds of searches than the find toolbar. Only one in 10 know what ctrlf does here are shortcuts.
Foxit reader, a free pdf reading alternative, offers similar options. New to firefox ctrlf doesnt work mozillazine forums. Just under the current keys box, word will inform you that this shortcut key is current assigned to the navpanesearch command. Instead of entering your search word, click replace with at the bottom of that find box.
I saw on internet that there was a patch to fix this problem but only for sas 8. I am new to firefox, have been using it about a week. I have 64bit ff on windows 10,right now i have ff 56. If you can not use the ctrl f function in just this one notepad document you can press ctrl a and then ctrl c.
After opening firefox in safe mode the ctrl f function worked. For example, if i have an index formula to retrieve some names under b2. Control p does not work, but printer is working acrobat. I have no idea what is going on, this morning i couldnt get a search box up with ctrl f, this afternoon i couldnt either, now i can. Browser keyboard shortcuts not working on some websites. Unfortunately, i have gone through all of those options and the find feature is still not working to find numbers that i know exist because im looking at them on my screen trying to get the find feature to work.
When i copypasted it into the simpletext editor, the paste operation dropped all of the newlines and all of a sudden, control f could work. The search function still worked after turning all of the addons back on. When using a specific website only hitting ctrl f causes the find window to appear and then immediately disappear ctrl f works normally on all other websites. Unless that image is processed through an optical character recognition process, it is still just an image or picture of a page of text. By ssgtbair years ago recently i noticed my ctrl f shortcut doesnt work anywhere and ctrl b doesnt work in word 2007i cant pinpoint the time and thus do. Also, i dont have any other keyboards unfortunately. If yes, we would like to know if youre using microsoft edge to open the pdf file. Click close to close the customize keyboard dialog box.
Its frustrating because now i cant do a search for. My keyboard works fine on my laptop when i plug it in. But due to all of the above, i really dont think its the keyboard itself. The keyboard i specifically have issues with is a media keyboard. Its not just in chrome browser but also in other softwares like pdf and words. How to search multiple pdf documents at once ghacks tech. To quickly find a shortcut in this article, you can use search. Keyboard issue ctrl, tab when combined with other keys hi play online games and try and keep this simple to explain what is happening.
Solved if it doesnt do anything, this could also mean it is assigned to nothing. As earth day ramps up, use these tips to celebrate from the comfort of home. Visual studio find in files does not work stack overflow. Good morning, ctrl f does not work on the columns in which the names are resulting from formulas. This could be for a number of reasons but in this case we are assuming that you. Even when i search for a word that i can see on the page im looking at adobe still tells me there are now matches. The only way for me to proceed is to end task and reopen excel then reopen the file and proceed. I just recently switched from a pc to a macbook pro, and theres just one thing thats bugging me. For whatever reason, if you type the what youre searching for anywhere on the page, find all is able to find all of the options not just the new one you typed. For searches across multiple pdfs, acrobat also looks at document properties and xmp metadata, and it searches indexed structure tags when searching a pdf index. When you use the search window, object data and image xif extended image file format metadata are also searched.
A tool panel will open to the right of the document. Were all sharing the same home, and showing it some love is oh so important. Adobe reader opens the advanced search options in a new window. Click on the work with scanned documents arrow and at the very bottom, click on optimize scanned pdf. Onenote is my life because i insert pdf printouts to take notes for class. I am unable to use the find or ctrl f on scanned documents to find certain words within the document.
The only shortcuts that work are those implemented by the script running on the page. Why cant i do ctrl find to locate a word in a pdf file. I then started enabling the addons one at a time and testing after each. Adobe reader is not the only pdf reader that can find text in multiple pdf documents.
If your problem has not been solved you can use thread tools located above your first post and choose mark this thread as unsolved. Internet explorer had this thing where you held control, hit f, and then a window with a text box popped up. The shortcuts listed in this article apply specifically to the onenote for windows 10 app. Ctrl f search opens but will not find content on the. I have an hp envy laptop less than 6months old operating on windows 8 and my ctrl key doesnt work as it should.
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