Finding a word in a book

NOOK Reading App for Windows – Find a word or phrase in a book

  1. Swipe up from the bottom of the screen.
  2. Select Find from the app menu.
  3. Type in the word of phrase of interest.
  4. Select Enter.
  5. If a word is found that matches the search term, it will appear highlighted on the screen.

Contents

  • 1 How do I find a specific word in a book?
  • 2 How do you search for a word in a paper?
  • 3 How do I find the content of a book?
  • 4 What is a keywords in a book?
  • 5 How do you search a word on Mac?
  • 6 How do you search for specific words on a Mac?
  • 7 How do you search for words on word?
  • 8 How do I find similar words in word?
  • 9 How do you search for specific words on Google?
  • 10 How do I find a book with a description?
  • 11 What should rea?
  • 12 How do you find a lost book at home?
  • 13 What is keyword and example?
  • 14 How do I find the metadata of a book?
  • 15 How do you search for a word in a PDF on a Mac?
  • 16 How do you find Word Count on Microsoft?
  • 17 How do you search a word quickly?
  • 18 How do you check Word Count on pages?
  • 19 How do you find a word in a document we can use which of the following function key?
  • 20 How do I find a specific thing?

How do I find a specific word in a book?

Hold the Ctrl keyboard key and press the F keyboard key (Ctrl+F) or right-click (click the right mouse button) somewhere on the article and select Find (in this article). This will bring up a text box to type search words into (see picture below).

How do you search for a word in a paper?

To open the Find pane from the Edit View, press Ctrl+F, or click Home > Find. Find text by typing it in the Search the document for… box. Word Web App starts searching as soon as you start typing.

How do I find the content of a book?

The Best Online Catalogs to Find Any Book

  1. BookFinder.
  2. WorldCat.
  3. The Library of Congress.
  4. Goodreads.
  5. LibraryThing: Name That Book.
  6. 1. Facebook.
  7. Twitter.
  8. Quora.

What is a keywords in a book?

Keywords are one or more words used to indicate the content of your book. Simply put, metadata and keywords are what make your book appear when a reader goes looking for a specific thing online, whether that thing is a book or not.

How do you search a word on Mac?

You can quickly look up the definitions of words and phrases while working in apps or browsing webpages.

  1. On your Mac, in an app or webpage, or in a photo or image, Control-click a word or phrase (in some apps you may need to select it first).
  2. Choose Look Up from the shortcut menu.

How do you search for specific words on a Mac?

In the Safari app on your Mac, press Command-F. Type a word or phrase in the search field that appears in the top-right corner. To see the next occurrence on the page, click the Next button to the right of the field.

How do you search for words on word?

Select the Tools menu at the top center of the document window. Click on Word Count. Select Word Count from the Tools menu dropdown. A box displaying the number of words, characters, lines, pages and paragraphs will appear on the screen.

How do I find similar words in word?

To find a related word, follow these steps:

  1. Position the insertion point in the word you wish to check.
  2. Press Shift+F7 or choose Language from the Tools menu and then Thesaurus from the submenu.
  3. If related words are available for the word, you will see the Related Words choice in the dialog box or the task pane.

How do you search for specific words on Google?

You can find a specific word or phrase on a web page on your computer.

  1. On your computer, open a webpage in Chrome.
  2. At the top right, click More. Find.
  3. Type your search term in the bar that appears in the top right.
  4. Press Enter to search the page.
  5. Matches appear highlighted in yellow.

How do I find a book with a description?

Below, we’ve gathered a few useful ways you can find a book from a vague description.

  1. Google it. Many book lovers may be familiar with Google Books.
  2. Turn to the expertise of strangers through social media.
  3. Search on BookBub’s website.
  4. When in doubt, ask your librarian.

What should rea?

What Should I Read Next?

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  • The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.
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How do you find a lost book at home?

Call the last place you had the item if it was lost outside your home. Review every place you’ve been to today and think of the last place you remember having the item. Call them and ask to see if it’s been turned in or found. If not, call the other places you were at.

What is keyword and example?

Keywords are the words and phrases that people type into search engines to find what they’re looking for. For example, if you were looking to buy a new jacket, you might type something like “mens leather jacket” into Google. Even though that phrase consists of more than one word, it’s still a keyword.

How do I find the metadata of a book?

How to get book metadata?

  1. Scrape Amazon.
  2. Scrape the Library of Congress.
  3. ISBNdb.com API.
  4. Google Book Data API.
  5. Buy a license to a database of books.

How do you search for a word in a PDF on a Mac?

How to search a PDF on Mac

  1. Find the PDF you want to search and open it.
  2. Once it’s open in Preview, you can search easily in the search bar at the top.
  3. Type the word or phrase you want to search into the search box.
  4. Once typed in, all the instances of the word will show up in the sidebar.

How do you find Word Count on Microsoft?

The method for finding the character count in Word is exactly the same whether you are using Windows or a Mac.

  1. If you want the character count of just part of the document, select the text you want to count.
  2. Click the “Review” tab in the ribbon.
  3. In the ribbon, click “Word Count.”
  4. The Word Count dialog box will appear.

How do you search a word quickly?

1 – Press the Ctrl+F key combination. You’ll see a small search box pop up near the top of the screen. 2 – Type the word or phrase you wish to find in the search box. As you’re typing, the first occurrence of that word or phrase will automatically be highlighted on the screen.

How do you check Word Count on pages?

Click View > Show Word Count from the menu bar. When the box appears at the bottom of your Pages document, you’ll see the word count. Click that box and you’ll also see the character count with and without spaces, the paragraph count, and number of pages.

How do you find a word in a document we can use which of the following function key?

Answer: To find a word in a document we can use F5 from the mentioned options. Another option to find the word in a document is ctrl+f. Both the options will help you find the words that you want in the word document.

How do I find a specific thing?

1. Exact phrase. The simplest and most effective way to search for something specific is to use quote marks around a phrase or name to search for those exact words in that exact order. For instance, searching for Joe Bloggs will show results with both Joe and Bloggs but not necessarily placed sequentially.

So, you have family staying over and, as usual you want to try and find something to keep everyone amused. This simple ‘trick’ to find any word in any book will amaze anyone you try it on—well, those that haven’t read this, of course. The premise is simple; someone choses any word from any page in any book and with the power of mathematics you will be able to tell them what the word was. Unless both you and the person you are performing this ‘trick’ on is very good with numbers, it is best to use a calculator. And, of course, you need to have at least one book handy to do this or it becomes a bit pointless. Read on to find out how it all works.

  • The first step is to allow the person to chose a word from any page in a book and not to tell you what it is.
  • Once the word has been chosen, hand them the calculator and get them to follow the next 5 steps.
  1. Multiply the page number by 100.
  2. Add 25 to this total.
  3. Count the number of lines down, from the top of the page, to the line the word is on; add that number to the total.
  4. Multiply by 100.
  5. Count the number of words from the start of the line to the chosen word; add that number to the total.

Ask the person for their final total; it is all you will need to find what word they picked.

How do you work it out , I hear you ask. Basically, deduct 2,500 from the final total. The last two digits are the word number in from the start of the line. The next two digits (to the left) are the line down from the top of the page. The remaining numbers (again, to the left) will give you the page. It really is as simple as that, but just in case you haven’t quite worked it out, read on to see an example.

For example, say the final number was 1,833,907.

  • Deducting 2,500 from that number leaves 1,831,407
  • The word you are looking for is the 7th word (last 2 digits)
  • The word you are looking for is on the 14th line (next 2 digits)
  • The word you are looking for is on the 183rd page.

It is as simple as that. Just by using simple mathematics you can easily find any word in a book that someone else has chosen. Now, that is magic.

Hopefully this doesn’t go against the rules because I need a hand with something, if anyone can offer advice.

As background, I manage an audiobooks company. Since I manage such a small company I often find myself doing the day to day stuff. This includes editing the books after they’ve been recorded. Sometimes I find myself in the precarious situation where someone has misread a sentence and I need to futz around with the audio and fix it. I’ll add a word here, delete a word there. Unfortunately the predicament I’m currently in isn’t so simple. I basically have to recreate the title of a book with only the audio I have. The editing itself is the easy part… it’s actually being able to find the words/proper inflection that’s difficult.

In my particular situation I need to recreate the title «[The Hundred-Year Marathon:] China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower»; that second part was never read. What’s frustrating is I was able to get everything except the word «Superpower» (the only one I see is in the book jacket, but the inflection doesn’t match).

When I find myself in these situations I usually resort to Amazon’s «Look Inside» function, but it’s about 50/50. Sometimes it’s fine. Sometimes it will be (as in this case) a Kindle book and you only get a few chapters. Other times the «Look Inside» function is totally ginked and will lie to you.

So my question: Does anyone have any reliable suggestions for a tool I can use to search within a book and find specific words (and I’ve already tried Google Books tonight — didn’t work)?

Thanks in advance.

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  • Hi Paul, thanks for the help it’s much appreciated. I tried your suggestion and subbed in the single curly speech marks and it worked to an extent, but there are problems with dialogue which contain words with apostrophes in. for instance, I searched for the word ‘very’ using the following formula with wildcards selected: (^0146[!^0145]@) very

    And the find function highlighted the text I’ve marked in red below which is inside the dialogue. Obviously the extra speech mark used as an apostrophe causes the issue and now I wish I was American and used the double speech marks as this would bypass the issue. However, as I need to stay with UK standards changing the speech marks is not an option, so with this in mind can you see a way round this problem?

    �If that�s your argument,� Walker said, �it�s not very convincing.�

    Looking at it I would imagine it needs some kind of IF command, i.e. IF the apostophe ^0146 is followed by anything except white space then ignore, which would also bypass other words like they’re, won’t etc. Although knowing what I need to do and putting into practise are two VERY different things.

    Like many good interview questions, the question is phrased a little ambiguously/imprecisely, to force the interviewee to ask clarifying questions and state assumptions. I think a number of the other answers here are good, as they poke at these assumptions and demonstrate big-picture understanding.

    I’m assuming the text is stored ‘offline’ somewhere, but there is a way to iterate over each word in the text without loading the whole text into memory.

    Then the F# code below find the top N words. It’s only data structure is a mapping of key-value pairs (word, frequency), and it only keeps the top N of those, so the memory use is O(N), which is small. The runtime is O(numWordsInText^2), which is poor, but acceptable given the problem constraints. The gist of the algorithm is straightforward, for each word in the text, count how many times it occurs, and if it’s in the running best-N, then add it to the list and remove the previous minimum entry.

    Note that the actual program below loads the entire text into memory, merely for convenience of exposition.

    #light
    // some boilerplate to grab a big piece of text off the web for testing
    open System.IO 
    open System.Net 
    let HttpGet (url: string) = 
        let req = System.Net.WebRequest.Create(url) 
        let resp = req.GetResponse() 
        let stream = resp.GetResponseStream() 
        let reader = new StreamReader(stream) 
        let data = reader.ReadToEnd() 
        resp.Close() 
        data 
    let text = HttpGet "http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/classes/cs2360_98_summer/hw1"
    let words = text.Split([|' ';'r';'n'|], System.StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)
    // perhaps 'words' isn't actually stored in memory, but so long as we can 
    // 'foreach' over all the words in the text we're good
    let N = 5  // how many 'top frequency' words we want to find
    let FindMin map =
        // key-value pair with mininum value in a map
        let (Some(seed)) = Map.first (fun k v -> Some(k,v)) map
        map |> Map.fold_left 
            (fun (mk,mv) k v -> if v > mv then (mk,mv) else (k,v)) 
            seed
    let Main() =
        let mutable freqCounts = Map.of_list [ ("",0) ]
        for word in words do
            let mutable count = 0
            for x in words do
                if x = word then
                    count <- count + 1
            let minStr,minCount = FindMin freqCounts
            if count >= minCount then
                freqCounts <- Map.add word count freqCounts
            if Seq.length freqCounts > N then
                freqCounts <- Map.remove minStr freqCounts
        freqCounts 
        |> Seq.sort_by (fun (KeyValue(k,v)) -> -v) 
        |> Seq.iter (printfn "%A")
    Main()
    

    Output:

    [the, 75]
    [to, 41]
    [in, 34]
    [a, 32]
    [of, 29]
    


    Find results
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    Are there any resources for finding examples of texts which use a particular word, in any language?

    One would think that Google would be fit for this purpose, however with Google I cannot find a single page which uses the word vaginate in natural context. All results returned are general reference (dictionaries, pronunciation guides, etc). Though an English word is given for example, this question addresses resources available in any language.

    asked Aug 10, 2016 at 8:55

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    answered Aug 10, 2016 at 19:21

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    TsundokuTsundoku

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    You can try Linguee.

    And this is a dictionary first, but it also provides some real-world-examples:
    https://glosbe.com/

    You can also try this: http://corp.hum.sdu.dk/

    They all cover only a selection of languages each, though.

    answered Aug 10, 2016 at 16:53

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    gehgeh

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    For better results than using Google directly, try a «corpus search». Ask Google for «name of language + corpus» and you will find what you need.

    For example «Esperanto corpus» gives you these:

    http://tekstaro.com/

    http://corp.hum.sdu.dk/cqp.eo.html

    answered Aug 10, 2016 at 17:28

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    Just to add another great resource: http://www.dwds.de/
    Corpora like this one shows you texts in which the words appear, synonyms and the etymology.
    It’s as easy as a Google search.

    answered Aug 16, 2016 at 6:33

    Charlotte SL's user avatar

    A fellow Logos user recently emailed me an excellent question:

    Is there a way to find the words in a particular NT book (e.g. Philippians) that are unique to it? In other words, they are not used elsewhere in the NT?

    Even though at first glance the question sounds like a huge task, actually it’s quite simple through the use of Word Lists:

    • Choose Documents | Word List
    • Name it Philippians (A)

    • Click Add (B)
    • Type Philippians in the Reference box (C)
    • Press the Enter key

    • Give Logos a moment and it will list every Greek lemma in Philippians
    • Choose Documents | Word List again
    • Name it NT minus Philippians (D)
    • Click Add (E)
    • Type Mt-Eph in the Reference box (F)
    • Press the Enter key

    • Give Logos a moment (or two) and it will list every Greek lemma in Matthew through Ephesians
    • Click Add again (G)
    • Type Col-Rev in the Reference box (H)
    • Press the Enter key

    • Give Logos another few moments and it will add to the above list all of the lemmas in Colossians through Revelation, which results in every Greek lemma in the NT less Philippians
    • Go back to the Philippians Word List (I)
    • Click Merge (J)
    • Select NT minus Philippians from the list (K)
    • Click Difference on the right hand side (L)

    • Wait patiently and Logos will create a new Word List of the Greek lemmas found in Philippians, but nowhere else in the NT! (M)

    Obviously, by manipulating the above verse ranges, you can create unique lemma Word Lists for practically any portion of Scripture you desire.

    Observing words unique to a book or writings by a specific author may reveal a theme or insight in a portion of Scripture. For example, Paul used a word translated striving in Philippians 1:27 and labored in Philippians 4:3, which may refer to soldiers fighting side by side. Elsewhere in Philippians 3:20 he used a political word translated citizenship (which has a general meaning of commonwealth) reminding believers their ultimate residence is heaven.

    These words make even more sense when we discover Philippi served as a military outpost for the Roman Empire and this Roman colony was nicknamed “Little Rome” because of the patriotism of its citizens!

    For more information about harmonies, be sure to order your copy of the Logos Training Manuals Volumes 1-3 in print and digital.

    Also, be sure to register for an upcoming live stream Camp Logos Inductive webinar August 13-17 and August 27-31.

    And for 24/7 Logos training, check out the new MPSeminarsOnline.com website.

    Remember to follow Faithlife.com/mpseminars and you’ll automatically receive a FREE digital download of Dr. Grant Osborne’s commentary Ephesians Verse

    ***


    Morris Proctor is a certified trainer for Logos Bible Software. Morris, who has trained thousands of Logos users at his two-day Camp Logos seminars, provides many training materials.

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