Re: the "Find" function in MS Word
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 08:38:07 -0800
Debbie, seriously, I wasn't being critical. But it confused me at the point
where it seemed as if you were teaching Word itself, which is fine if for
some reason people are managing to use a program but haven't actually
learned about it from instructions or reading documentation. But I just got
confused when you went into explaining the Find procedure, I mean about why
you were explaining it,to the point where I wondered for a moment if there
was something I might be missing.
But as long as you're generous enough to offer some hints and instructions,
there's no harm in making sure that people aren't mystified more than
necessary by that function in the program and explaining its normal use. I
was really just wondering if I wasn't understanding something.
Daniel
ehtehr
----- Original Message -----
From: "Debbie Kessler" <jessesgirl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 7:11 AM
Subject: Re: the "Find" function in MS Word
Yah, you are right. It is a little over kill. I think I have heard people
tell me this before. GRIN. I can explain only what is going on around the
sequence of resetting the ctrl + page down command for you. No offence
taken. You definitely have a good grasp of Word.
Later,
Debbie
----- Original Message -----
From: Yardbird
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 6:40 AM
Subject: Re: the "Find" function in MS Word
Hi Debbie,
As a longtime Word user, I'm not sure why you're concerned with this.
What
I didn't know was a routine for getting out of the situation where you've
used Find, and then control page down keeps functioning as a follow-up
command for the Find procedure rather than returning to its original
function. But the Word find function itself is easy to learn everything
about. You just tab through it to hear your options, and if you want to
use
more specific search criteria (whole word only, ignore case, etc.) than
what's on the basic dialogue, you click on More and are presented with
those
additional criteria to choose from, and then you click on Find Next, and
so
forth. Are you sort of giving instructions that are just instructions for
Word that you learn when you learn the program? No criticism implied,
just
trying to figure out your objective. thanks. And thanks again for the
hint
for using the Go To dialogue to get out of that control page down
situation.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Debbie Kessler" <jessesgirl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 6:20 AM
Subject: Re: the "Find" function in MS Word
Hi yardbird and all;
I will post a detailed description of the find dialog box this evening if
know one else has. What I know about the find dialog box I learned while
tutoring students taking English classes and editing for alt media. I
guess
I should explain what is happening when resetting the ctrl + page down
command to move a page at a time and then go on to a more general
discription of the find dialog box. In short, the find box is actually a
multi page dialog box with three tabs. The tabs are: find, find and
replace,
and go to. Most people know them by their individual commands: find ctrl +
F; find and replace ctrl + h; and go to ctrl + g. You can go to the find
box
and switch to the go to box by pressing ctrl + tab.
Oh also, yes, the shift f4 works for moving from one find item to the next
in Word 2000.
Got to go;
Debbie
----- Original Message -----
From: Yardbird
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: the "Find" function in MS Word
Dean and Sameer,
With appreciation for both of your contributions on this, I have to say
that
Debbie's method of using the Control G (go to) function-- or sort of
misusing it, if that's what this strategy amounts to-- is the simpler
and
easier to remember of the two methods for returning to the original
navigational function of Control PageDown. I'd love to know what both
these
methods actually are doing, for a sense of context, if Sameer or
Dean/Debbie
can elucidate. If not, I'll still be happy to have both these
instructions
in my Word arsenal. There's little more frustrating in a long document
than
to lose the page-by-page function of that command just because, also in
the
service of navigating and editing a document, you had to do a Find to,
well,
fine something. I always thought what that does to control page down
was
kind of thoughtless in design terms.
anyway, thanks for all the help. I'm glad I pitched in on this thread,
even
though my own attempt to offer a helpful suggestion earlier turned out
not
to be as knowledgeable as I thought it was.
Daniel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dean Martineau" <dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: the "Find" function in MS Word
Debbie Kessler sent this to the list earlier; here is the relevant
part of her message concerning restoring the functionality of the
ctrl-pgdn key:
Normally, ctrl + page down moves you through a document a page at a
time. So, to go back and have these keys move you a page at a time,
do the following:
Open the go to dialog box with ctrl + g
the focus is in the edit field
press the delete key
press the enter key
press escape
Now, ctrl + page down will move you through a document a page at a time.
Debbie
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