Any way to get consistentcy with Ctrl+F???

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Is anyone aware of a third party utility, registry hack or some other
way of getting consistent behavior with IE's search function? If e.g.
multiple frames are open on a webpage, and the text you're looking
for happens to be in the wrong frame, the search simply return a
"not found" message when in fact the text DOES exist elsewhere
on the page. This is a major hassle.
 
Rick said:
Is anyone aware of a third party utility, registry hack or some other
way of getting consistent behavior with IE's search function? If e.g.
multiple frames are open on a webpage, and the text you're looking
for happens to be in the wrong frame, the search simply return a
"not found" message when in fact the text DOES exist elsewhere
on the page. This is a major hassle.
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Just click within the frame that you are searching in?
(or use F6 to explicitly select one.)

FWIW I often doubleclick on a word from where I want
a Find to start for efficiency. This automatically selects
the frame if there is one which needs selecting.


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Robert Aldwinckle said:
Just click within the frame that you are searching in?
(or use F6 to explicitly select one.)

FWIW I often doubleclick on a word from where I want
a Find to start for efficiency. This automatically selects
the frame if there is one which needs selecting.
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Thanks for the tips, Robert. However I was hoping to find
an automatic solution. Most times when browsing results
from a search engine, it's not known in which frame the word
or phrase is located. I've even run into cases where there
was only one frame and IE's Find STILL returns zero hits.
The only option is this case is to manually highlight the entire
webpage and then do a Ctrl+F.

I guess the underlying question is, is it really that difficult to
program a Find function that searches through all active frames
on a given webpage? Or does anyone know of a third-party
"superfind" utility that can handle this?
 
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I've even run into cases where there was only one frame
and IE's Find STILL returns zero hits.
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That may be something quite different.
Notice the date of the result vs the date of the page.
The newer version may not have the same content as
the search engine found.

So then what you can do, on Google for example,
is used its Cached link.

The only option is this case is to manually highlight the entire
webpage and then do a Ctrl+F.
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Depending on the search engine it may even be necessary
to do a View Source of such pages. Some search engines
include hidden HTML which would only be visible in its source
form.

Actually I often use View Source as an alternative to Find
but then if frames are involved it becomes even more important
to make sure that you are getting the source that you are interested in.


Robert
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