Edit>Find Search

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Edit>Find Search

I'd like to search for certain words in my own work, i.e., search for a word and then have it highlighted at each occurrence. Is there an app for this?

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 13.4

Posted on Jul 24, 2023 6:23 PM

Answer 1

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Allan Jones

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Jul 25, 2023 9:27 AM in response to NewbyInTown

What app is your work created in now? Most have than function built in so you do not beed a third-party app.

This is from searching an Apple support document for the word "rapid" using command f in Safari:

Textedit works the same way. So does Apple's Pages.

In Office Mac 2019, command f finds the first occurence but subsequent use of command g moves the highligh tothe next occurence.

With more detail from you I may be able to give more specific suggestions.

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Old Toad

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Jul 25, 2023 11:07 AM in response to NewbyInTown

If you're looking for a single word the following probably won't work unless the word is a unique one:

1 - bring up the Spotlight search field with ⌘+Spacebar.

2 - enter the unique word or phrase in quotes:

That will find all documents in which that phrase is located.

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Barney-15E

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Jul 25, 2023 7:39 PM in response to NewbyInTown

Preview (pretty much all Apple apps) will recognize text in a picture of a document. I get mixed results, but maybe that's all you need.

You would need Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to convert the picture of text to text.

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NewbyInTown Author

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Jul 25, 2023 7:13 PM in response to Allan Jones

Allan Jones, thank you very much for reaching out to help me. I'm realizing that the problem is that what I'm having trouble with is actually a paper I downloaded that someone had typed up many years ago. So probably because it wasn't done on a computer, the Edit>Find search won't work. If you have any ideas for converting what was done on an old-fashioned typewriter, let me know! Thanks! ~ Melanie

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NewbyInTown Author

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Jul 25, 2023 7:15 PM in response to Old Toad

Old Toad ~ Thank you very much for reaching out to help me. As I explained above to someone else, I'm realizing that the problem is that what I'm having trouble with is actually a paper I downloaded that someone had typed up many years ago. So probably because it wasn't done on a computer, the Edit>Find search won't work. If you have any ideas for converting what was done on an old-fashioned typewriter, let me know! Thanks! ~ Melanie

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