Searching for a specific place or page

Using the Autosearch feature

Searching for text on a page

Finding a file on your hard disk

To search for a specific place or page

• On the Go menu, choose Search The Internet.

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Button bar shortcuts (Search button)
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Using the Autosearch feature

To use the Autosearch feature

1. Click in the Address bar.
2. Type go and your keyword. For example, to find information on cats, type go cats.
3. Press Return. The default search engine is http://www.yahoo.com. You cannot use a different search engine with this feature. This link points to a site that is not under the control of Microsoft. Please read our disclaimer.

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New features: Autosearch
Searching for a specific place or page

To search for text on a page

1. On the Edit menu, choose Find.
2. Type the text you want to find.
3. Change any settings as needed.
   • To find only those occurances of text on the current page that match the uppercase and lowercase characters you typed in the Find box, select the Match Case check box.
   • To begin searching at the top of the page, select the Start From Top check box. When this check box is cleared, Internet Explorer begins searching from the current location on the page.
4. Click Find.
5. To continue searching for the same text, choose Find Again from the Edit menu.

• You can find text only on the current page. To search a whole Web site, use a search engine.

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Searching for a specific place or page

To open a file on your hard disk

1. On the File menu, choose Open File.
2. On the Show menu, choose the type of file you want.
3. Find the file you want to open, and then click Open.

Tip

• You can also open a page on your hard disk by dragging the Web page to the Microsoft Internet Explorer window.