Find or Search in NotePad


  1. Posts : 728
    windows 7
       #1

    Find or Search in NotePad


    For windows 10.
    Does anyone have this issue besides me? I can do a FIND in notepad and and it works fine one time. If I go to use it again, it says it can NOT find what I am trying to find.

    Drives me nuts. Looking forward to responses.

    Thanks
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  2. Posts : 16,963
    Windows 10 Home x64 Version 22H2 Build 19045.4170
       #2

    Notepad search has a direction.
    Look in its dialog box and you'll see that.
    Perhaps you are telling it to search Down when you are already at or near the end of the document.

    1 Search for directly and eventually you'll reach the end of the document.
    Find or Search in NotePad-1.png - Find or Search in NotePad-2.png

    2 Now try to search for galleries and it won't find anything.
    Find or Search in NotePad-3.png

    3 Move your cursor to the top of the document and search again for it to find galleries.
    Find or Search in NotePad-4.png
    You could change the search direction to Up instead if you preferred.
    See Manipulating Notepad Find direction [my post #6] - TenForums



    All the best,
    Denis
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  3. Posts : 728
    windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #3

    It is just a bunch of files that I want to locate on the notepad.

    There maybe 10-15 items max. I just can not understand whey only on search is possible without reopening it.
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  4. Posts : 6,856
    22H2 64 Bit Pro
       #4

    huffman said:
    It is just a bunch of files that I want to locate on the notepad.

    There maybe 10-15 items max. I just can not understand whey only on search is possible without reopening it.
    Search and find. For the next search for different terms move the cursor back to the start of the document.

    Click inside the notepad document then press [CTRL+Home] to move to the top. Then enter your new search term.
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  5. Posts : 16,963
    Windows 10 Home x64 Version 22H2 Build 19045.4170
       #5

    huffman said:
    It is just a bunch of files that I want to locate on the notepad.
    I do not know what you are talking about. Notepad shows text not files.

    huffman said:
    There maybe 10-15 items max. I just can not understand whey only on search is possible without reopening it.
    You have made no reference to my previous post.


    Denis
    Last edited by Try3; 30 Sep 2023 at 03:25.
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  6. Posts : 43,021
    Win 10 Pro (22H2) (2nd PC is 22H2)
       #6

    Files? Not text? Screenshot please. What exactly are you trying to do?
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  7. Posts : 16,963
    Windows 10 Home x64 Version 22H2 Build 19045.4170
       #7

    Anything more to report?


    Denis
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  8. Posts : 679
    Windows 10
       #8

    What are you trying to search through? The Kernel?

    A big document?

    A file which has its extension changed?

    Maybe permissions are the issue.
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