How to Search for a Word on a Web Page

It can get exhausting to search for a specific word, especially when you have no intentions of reading the entire article or web page. What most people do not realize is that its extremely easy to search for words on a page. If only you had known before, it could have saved you all that time and efforts you wasted into your earlier searches. Well not to worry, all you need to learn is a few key commands in order to know how to search for a word on a web page.

Method 1

• Highlight: The Google search engine, has a support tool bar that give you the 'highlight' option. Just click on the button and it will highlight all matching results for you. Though the options differ for Firefox and Internet Explorer. If you have Internet Explorer, the first step is to click on the wrench icon on the Toolbar, the second step is to go to the Tools tab, and either select or un-select the 'Highlight' check box. The final step is to click on the 'Save' button. When it comes to Mozilla Firefox, the first step is to go to the Toolbar's wrench option. Then go to the 'Search' tab, there you may either select or un-select the 'Highlight' option on the check box. Then lastly click on the 'Save' option.
• Word Find: Google also has the Find word option wherein whichever word you type in the search box appears in the tool bar.

Method 2

• The second method on how to search for a word on a website, is rather simpler. While using Firefox in order to search for the word you're looking for on the web page, you need to press CTRL+F on your Keyboard.
• Once you do that a small box will open on the bottom corner of your screen. Now type in the word or the phrase you want and if the word exists on the web page, then that word will automatically get highlighted for you.
• The highlights will occur as many times the words repeat themselves on the page.
• So it will make it easier for you to just concentrate on those lines or paragraphs without having to read the entire page and thus wasting your time unnecessarily.
• For example if the word you're looking for is 'Health insurance plan', press CLTR+F, the search box will open. Then just type the phrase in the search box, and all the sentences that include 'Health insurance plan' will get highlighted for your perusal.
• If you are using Internet Explorer then the search box will appear on the Top corner of your web page using the same CLTR+F command on your keyboard.
• You can search for as many words and phrases on any web page through this method.

Method 3

If suppose the search box at the corner of your web page does not open you have another choice, which will activate the search box and help you search for the word you're looking for.

• Firstly you will need to go onto the Edit tab on your Toolbar.
• Now click on the Find option.
• Once you do that the search box will open for you and you can type in the word or phrase you are searching for. If the word does not exist then the The word not found will appear.

Now you won't need to waste your time into futile attempts. Say 'No'!, to painstaking searches that yield dismal results. Using the above methods will make it faster for you to search for specific key words, which will make your research work faster and far more efficient. So go ahead and give these methods a try.