Look for word on web page

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If you wish to find or search for a specific word or phrase on a web page, while browsing with your Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Internet Explorer or any other browser on your Windows 11/10/8/7 PC, then follow this simple procedure. This procedure is a built-in feature of web browsers that you can access anytime. Also, this feature to search or find a word on a webpage works for private windows or incognito tabs also.

To search for a word on a web page in any browser on Windows PC is simple!

1. Launch your web browser
2. Visit a web page
3. Press Ctrl+F keyboard combination to bring up the Find bar
4. Type the desired text in it
5. The desired text will be highlighted on the webpage and the focus shifted to if
6. All instances of the said text will also be highlighted – possibly in a different color.

When you have opened the web page in your browser, simply press Ctrl+F keyboard combination to bring up the Find bar.

Microsoft Edge

On Microsoft Edge, you will see the following search bar appear.

Once you have typed in your phrase, they will get highlighted on the web page if they are found.

Find on page in Microsoft Edge

Another way to open the Find bar to search for a word on any webpage in Microsoft Edge is using the Find on page option. Here are the steps:

1. Open a webpage in Microsoft Edge
2. Press the Alt+F hotkey or click on the Settings and more icon present in the top-right corner
3. Click on the Find on page option to open the Search bar
4. Type a keyword in the text box and search results will be highlighted on that webpage
5. Use the Previous result and Next result icons present in the Find bar to jump to the results. Or else, you can also use Ctrl+Shift+G and Ctrl+G hotkeys to jump to previous and next results.

Google Chrome

Pressing Ctrl+F in Chrome too will bring up the Search bar similarly.

Find option in Google Chrome

Like Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome also provides a Find option to search on a webpage. Follow these steps:

1. Access a webpage in the Chrome browser on your Windows 11/10 computer
2. Click on the Customize and control Google Chrome icon (three vertical dots) available in the top right corner
3. Click on the Find option in the Customize and control menu to open the Find bar or Search bar.

Opera

Similarly in Opera, you will see the Find in page bar.

Find in page in Opera browser

In the Opera browser, you can access the Find in page option using the following steps:

1. Open a webpage in the Opera browser
2. Click on the Opera icon available in the top left corner or use the Alt+F hotkey to open the Customize and control menu
3. Click on the Find option.

Change hotkey to open Find bar in Opera

This is one of the interesting features of the Opera browser. It lets you change the default hotkey (Ctrl+F) with a custom hotkey to open the Find bar or Search bar. Here are the steps:

1. Open the Opera browser
2. Press Alt+P hotkey to open the Settings page
3. Expand the Advanced section
4. Access the Shortcuts section
5. Click on Configure shortcuts option
6. Look for Find in page option
7. Set a shortcut key combination. You can also set hotkeys for Find next and Find previous actions for the Find bar.

Internet Explorer

On Internet Explorer, you will see the following options. Once you have typed in your phrase, they will get highlighted on the web page if they are found.

You also have the option to set the Find bar to Match whole word only or Match case.

Mozilla Firefox

Firefox offers you the following different ways to search the contents of the current web page for text, words or links.

1] Click Ctrl+F to open the Find in page bar, type the search phrase in it.

Firefox will highlight the phrases if they are found. Use the Up / Down keys to browse the web page for the found phrase. If nothing is found, you will see the Phrase not found message.

2] Press the / (slash) key to open the Quick Find Bar.

You will see the in the button left side of the browser. This Quick Find bar is useful for quick searches and will automatically disappear after a while.

3] To find phrases that occur in web links, press the ‘ (single quote) key to bring up the Quick Find (links only) bar.

Typing text will select the link that contains this text. To highlight the next link, press Ctrl+G.

4] Firefox also lets you search as you type, without having to open the Find bar.

To enable this feature, click Menu > Options > Advanced > General tab and select Search for text when I start typing. Press Ctrl+G or F3 to highlight the next result.

Hope this helps.

Can you search for a certain word on a web page?

Yes, you can search for a certain word on a webpage in any modern browser like Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, etc. Each browser supports a global hotkey (Ctrl+F) to find on a webpage. These browsers also let you open the Find bar or Search bar in another way. You can check the detailed information about that in this post above.

How do I find a specific text on a web page?

To find a specific text or word on a webpage in a browser, you need to use the Find bar or Find on page or Find in page option of the web browser. In this post, you can check how to open and use the Find on page option in all popular browsers which include Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Opera browser.

Check this post if Ctrl+F does not work.

Regardless of what operating system you use or what application you are on, a search tool makes life so much simpler, doesn’t it? Even though the feature works very much the same on all of them, this guide clarifies how to search for a word on a page. If you are on a Mac or Windows, Chrome or Safari, Word, or other applications you should be able to find the text you are looking for with this guide.

To find a word on a page, you can use a keyboard shortcut such as “Control” + “F” on the windows operating system and “Command” + “F” if you are on macOS. This is somehow universal for all applications too, see below for a step-by-step guide on how to use them in different applications.

Two of the most widely used apps are a word processor(MS WORD) and the Web browser. So, let’s see how you can search for a word on both of these apps.

How to search a web page for a word in Google Chrome

This comes in very handy while browsing and reading through a website that has very long content. It can either be an ebook, an online word document, or just a blog.

When you are on the website, hit the control (Ctrl) key and “F” together to bring up the search bar. This should pop up somewhere on the top right corner of the screen.

Type the specific word you are searching for on the webpage and the search will look up words on that page and find it.

Search For Specific Words On A Word Document

In our previous guide, we looked into how to remove a section break on a word document.

Let’s see how you can look up a word in a word document.

Open the word document and hit “Ctrl” + “F” together on the keyboard. This brings up the search option on the left-hand side of the screen.

Enter the word you are searching for in the document. As you start typing, it searches for the word throughout the page.

You can easily navigate through different sections on the document by clicking on the links under “Results” to get to the part of the document that contains the word you are searching for.

If you looking to search a word on the page and replace that with some other words, you can use the find and replace feature on Word as well.

Click on the “Replace” button on the top right corner of the toolbar. You need to make sure you are on the “Home” options.

After clicking on it, it brings up the “find and replace” search option where you can enter a word that you would like to look up and the word you want to replace it with underneath.

That’s how you can find a word on a page in Microsoft Word.

How To Look up Words On A Webapge in Safari

The search feature works exactly the same on Safari as well. The only difference is that the CTRL key on windows is replaced with the command key on Mac OS or keyboards made for Mac OS.

Open the website in Safari that you are trying to look up a word in and hit the “Command” + “F” key together.

The search bar opens up on the top-right-hand corner of the screen. Enter the word you are trying to search for on that web page and it actively looks for the word and highlights all the instances of the word in that webpage.

You can use the same keyboard shortcut on almost all the applications in macOS to search for a specific word you are looking for in that document.

Summing Up,

Hopefully, this guide will help you understand and use the search feature on Windows and macOS operating systems. I always try to remember these keyboard shortcuts as it saves soo much time and makes browsing through content and reading articles a lot easier.

When you want to find something on a web page, you can search for it. However, finding something specific on a long web page can be unnecessarily frustrating. The good news is that you can easily execute a few quick functions and find what you are looking for in no time. Learn how you can search for a word on a web page on various browsers.

Google Chrome

Searching a web page on the Google Chrome browser is done by pressing Ctrl + F. This keyboard shortcut is the gold standard for all browsers. The following method also applies for most Chromium-based browsers, like Microsoft Edge and Opera.

1. Press Ctrl + F on your keyboard. A search box appears in the upper-right corner.

2. Enter your search term or terms and press Enter. Your search executes and shows you where the word you are searching for is located.

3. The first location is highlighted in orange. The next locations of your search term are highlighted in yellow. They can also be identified by orange hash marks on the scroll bar on the right side of the browser.

Alternatively, you can also go to the menu bar and select “Find.” This method will also result in the search box popping up in the upper-right corner.

Safari

Unsurprisingly, Safari uses the very same keyboard shortcut.

1. Enter Command + F on the keyboard. A search bar appears in the upper-right corner of the window. Enter your search term here.

2. You can now go directly to the first instance of your search term which is highlighted in yellow. Unlike Chrome, all of Safari’s search results come back highlighted in yellow. You can quickly jump from result to result inside the search bar by using the forward or backward arrows.

Firefox

Firefox offers a variety of options for search in general and for how search results are shown. For a general search, you follow similar steps to its competitors.

1. Press Ctrl + F on Firefox. It opens up the search bar at the bottom left of the website you are browsing.

2. You can search for your chosen word and Firefox will highlight the selected terms in green throughout the page.

3. Firefox also enables you to perform your search as case sensitive. In other words, you can capitalize any letter and Firefox will only search for the word with the capitalized letter.

4. Finally, Firefox also enables you to search with “Match Diacritics.” This allows you to locate a word that includes an accent or cedilla, which may hint at a different pronunciation.

Firefox Tips

Additionally, Firefox adds three more specific search options if you want to narrow your search results.

1. To do a quick find without all of the extra search functions, press the / key to open up the Quick Find bar. This appears in the bottom-left side of the browser and is useful for fast searches. It automatically disappears if not used.

2. If you want to find a word specifically in a URL that may be listed on a web page, press the single quote ‘ key to bring up the Quick Find (links only) bar at the bottom-left of the screen.

3. Lastly, Firefox adds one of the most useful functions by enabling “Search for text when I start typing” as a setting in its Preferences menu. To enable this option:

3.1. Go to Preferences from the menu bar.

3.2. At the General menu option, scroll down to locate the “Browsing” menu set. Inside that set, click on the box to enable “Search for text when you start typing.”

3.3. When enabled, this will immediately start showing search results as soon as you type the first letter. For example, when you type the letter “R,” every word on the webpage that includes the letter R will be highlighted.

Tips and Tricks

While each of the above-mentioned methods works well, there is another trick in case you don’t know on which specific page the word you are looking for is located. You can easily find what you need with a quick Google search.

1. Go to Google.com or place your cursor in your browser of choice’s omnibar.

2. To search for “Mint” on www.maketecheasier.com, enter this text: site:maketecheasier.com mint and hit Enter.

3. Search results now pop up in the same way as Google’s general search results. You can help narrow the results by enclosing the word in quotation marks so Google looks for that exact word.

Conclusion

While Firefox is easily the leader in the number of options, ultimately, all of the major browsers enable a similar, if not the exact same, method for searching for a word. Non-mainstream browsers like Brave and Vivaldi also offer the same search option, making word search nearly a universal option for anyone browsing the web.