Good advice, Don, but it may be worth adding one caution: If you're in the habit of using Control Page Up and Control Page Down to skip through your Word document one page (as opposed to one screen) at a time, this function won't be available to you anymore after you've used the same commands to repeat a search you began using Control F. Word will continue to believe that you're still looking for more instances of what you typed into the Find edit field, and either take you to the next occurrence of that search string or, if it finds no more of that, it will tell you so. you can't just say "thank you," then, and return to using Control Page Up and Control Page Down to skip a page in one direction or the other. Now, there's a way to restore the other function to Control Page Up and control Page Down, but I forget exactly. I think it may be to press Control G for the go to page number command, and then either use it for real or just hit Escape or something. that will restore the original key combination assignments. Someone who knows please say what you do, exactly. I'm sure there are some Jaws and Word power users on the list who know this. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Moore" <donmoore@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 3:05 PM Subject: Re: backward find in Word Hi Debra, As you know, to use the Find function, you first press Control f, type in your text string and press Enter. Then, press Escape to get out of the Find function. After that, you can press Control PageDown to find the next instance in the forward direction or press Control PageUp to go backwards and find the previous instance in the backward direction. Hope this helps, Don ----- Original Message ----- From: "Debra Hernstrom" <dhh@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 4:10 PM Subject: backward find in Word > Hello, > \ > there was a discussion awhile back about the keyoboard shortcut for a > backward find in Word. could someone tell me what this is. thank you. > > debra Hernstrom > > > -- > JFW related links: > JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ > Scripting mailing list: > http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com > JFW List instructions: > To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to > jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. > Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw > > If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or > the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather > contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx