re: searching (Posted on Investorshub.com)
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Note: I edited it to have an Silicon Investor post be used.
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Using the search method discussed in an iHub post
i tried it where i didn't think it would work, but it did :o)
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Hopefully Si Admin(BobZ) will not change Si's code
and break what can be a useful method to do a search
onto the recent posts made by a member as displayed
when you go to their Si Profile page. Its really not that all
detailed in what information one can view when we view
the recents posts made by a member on their profile page,
but hopefully down the road BobZ will allow us to view
an expanded version that includes for example the first
dozen lines of each post rather than just a couple.
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Free Zone | Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)
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A method to search the iHub post being displayed.
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Sometimes the iHub post being viewed is very long.
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For example, it contains a Cut & Paste of an article
from nytimes.com of a thousand words or more.
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If one only wanted to locate and read specific information
flagged with the word "fees" or phrase "fees in 2002"
a search feature on iHub would make it easy & quick.
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To demo this I will use
#reply-19402535
or
Message 19402535
as it contains
the text from LAtimes.com containing multiple "California".
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able to search for word "California"
or phrase "Southern California"
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The page starts with:
Logout Home MailBox Boards Favorites Hot! Tools Other
Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)
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The page ends with:
© 2003 Investors Hub, Inc.
About Us User Agreement Contact Us iHub FAQ
You are logged in as IH Admin [Matt]
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Inbetween are about three pages of text.
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At this point one is only able to search using them eyeballs.
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I'am using the Opera browser to explain this, but hopefully
the Netscape and Microsoft browsers are similiar in function.
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Not part of the iHub page being viewed and scroll'able
is the Toolbar at the upper most position on your screen.
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File Edit View Navigation Lists Mail News Preferences etc
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Step 1 - click into Edit
Step 2 - the Edit drop-down menu is displayed
Step 3 - select Find
Step 4 - a popup search box will appear
Step 5 - use it to find a word or phrase in iHub post viewing
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Note:
If the Find item in the Edit drop-down menu is grayed-out,
then this page cannot be search.
Also:
I have not tried this when displayed on my monitor screen
are the many posts being fully displayed using iHub's
Read Next 10-50-100. Sure would be nice if it worked.
Extra:
When the Find popup search box appears for my use,
its position is in the middle of the screen over the text
of the iHub post being read. One can either click the
mouse cursor on this popup's top bar and move it off
the iHub post, or click the little box with the - character
and use the Move feature. This allows one to view the
iHub post better. If you move this popup far to the right
of your screen such that most all of it goes off you screen,
just so you can click your mouse inside it allows you to move
your mouse focus between the iHub post and this popup
such that when the focus is on the popup an Enter will
execute the Find function just as if you clicked the Find
button inside the popup. This way you can move the focus
of your mouse back and forth such that you can Cut & Paste
a word or phrase from the iHub post and deposit it into
the popup "Find What" field. For myself I find that once
a search word or phrase is deposited in that field, that by
pressing the Enter key over and over I can observe where
in the iHub post this word or phrase is located since the
iHub post will automatically scroll and highlight the hit(s).
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Once again, you can change the word or phrase inside
the field location in the Find popup simply by clicking
you mouse inside the field so as to change where your
mouse has it's focus, thus allowing a Cut & Paste from
text contained in the iHub post to be moved there.
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(Extra) Using Next 10-50-100
Finding yourself a zillion pages down,
and you want to scroll to the top.
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If you wish to return to that top you can use:
press and hold for repeats - Page Up
or
press and release - Home
or
press and hold Ctrl, then press Home, then release both
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