What happened to CTRL-F find-on-page in IE8

[jsteph]

Hi all,
So I decided to trust Microsoft and I installed IE8 on pure faith that it would be better. Right off the bat it appears to have either removed or hidden the Ctrl-F "find-on-page" capability, which had become a must-have for me.

Can anyone tell me if it still has that feature? I looked on Microsoft's site and couldn't find it...however I did find it troubling that the #1 question on their site was "How do I uninstall IE8?".
Thanks,
--Jim

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Perhaps you have a customised version of IE 8 installed that has this removed?

I've got an out-of-the-box IE8 installation, and if I visit

http://www.google.co.uk,

wait for the page to load, and then press Ctrl+F, I see a 'Find' box appear under the 'Google' tab.

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[GriffMG]

Yup same for me - it doesn't pop up in a new widow anymore (why keep it the same?) but in its owm toolbar area at teh top of the screen.

Regards

Griff
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[jsteph]

D'OH!! Yep, I had been looking in the upper-right corner where the separate Find dialog always had appeared--in ie8 I now see it integrated in the toolbar. Sorry for the alarm, I'm good to go!
--Jim

 

[GriffMG]

Sorry that should have read:

it doesn't pop up in a new window anymore (why keep it the same?) but in its own toolbar area at the top of the screen

Not sure why I thought it should pop up in a widow!

Regards

Griff
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[feranmIE8team]

Glad you got that figured out. Here's a list of some more useful shortcuts in IE:

http://www.helpwithpcs.com/tipsandtricks/keyboard_shortcuts_explorer.htm

-Feran
Internet Explorer Outreach