http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2007/09/27/useless-tip-of-the-day-there-is-no-ctrl-f-in-books.aspxYou know you've thought about it at some point it time... "where's the Ctrl+F to search for something in the book you are reading." Sorry, there's no Ctrl+F in books.en-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2007/09/27/useless-tip-of-the-day-there-is-no-ctrl-f-in-books.aspx#5170235Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:14:05 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:5170235Techy News Blog » Useless Tip of the Day: There is no Ctrl+F in books<p>PingBack from <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.artofbam.com/wordpress/?p=3386">http://www.artofbam.com/wordpress/?p=3386</a></p> http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2007/09/27/useless-tip-of-the-day-there-is-no-ctrl-f-in-books.aspx#5171005Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:14:40 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:5171005Tom<p>I HATE that about books. &nbsp;</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2007/09/27/useless-tip-of-the-day-there-is-no-ctrl-f-in-books.aspx#5171032Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:15:09 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:5171032Roland<p>Even worse:</p> <p>There's no UNDO in life ...</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2007/09/27/useless-tip-of-the-day-there-is-no-ctrl-f-in-books.aspx#5171188Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:29:24 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:5171188Mike Sargent<p>I'm sure Google is working on it...</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2007/09/27/useless-tip-of-the-day-there-is-no-ctrl-f-in-books.aspx#5171208Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:32:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:5171208Matt Casto<p>In the same vein, there's no rewind on the radio. &nbsp;I think my TiVo has spoiled me.</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2007/09/27/useless-tip-of-the-day-there-is-no-ctrl-f-in-books.aspx#5173615Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:57:44 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:5173615Carlo<p>I've thought about books having some sort of index of every single word except 'for','the', 'as', etc. It's probably closest thing to the search function as you can get in books.</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2007/09/27/useless-tip-of-the-day-there-is-no-ctrl-f-in-books.aspx#5176550Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:34:01 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:5176550Adam<p>These days scanners can scan pages straight to text. &nbsp;So if you had some spare time it 'could' be done.</p> <p>I'm still working on the Ctrl + F on my key's cause i've lost them and is proving to be a real pain in the....</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2007/09/27/useless-tip-of-the-day-there-is-no-ctrl-f-in-books.aspx#5177255Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:17:17 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:5177255Li Yang<p>Carlo,</p> <p>Even if there is an index, you cannot search for two or more words together. So it is still far from Ctrl + F.</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2007/09/27/useless-tip-of-the-day-there-is-no-ctrl-f-in-books.aspx#5179614Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:54:55 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:5179614Muhammad Qasim Pasta<p>And we don't have 'paste' option in examination room :(</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2007/09/27/useless-tip-of-the-day-there-is-no-ctrl-f-in-books.aspx#5182077Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:50:13 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:5182077Huseyin<p>I'm sure they will include it with SP1 :P</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2007/09/27/useless-tip-of-the-day-there-is-no-ctrl-f-in-books.aspx#5183252Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:39:32 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:5183252webDotWiz<p>Is there a URL for posting this bug or a URL for posting a request the CTRL+F feature in the next version of all books?</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2007/09/27/useless-tip-of-the-day-there-is-no-ctrl-f-in-books.aspx#5186817Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:33:17 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:5186817Biscuit<p>There is, it's called Google Book search.. &nbsp;Of course it doesn't apply to all books yet (but they're probably working on it)..</p> <p>For specific books just use the intitle keyword, so to search for &quot;Meet the enemy&quot; in &quot;The Career Programmer&quot; (great book for developers by the way), the search would be:</p> <p>Meet the enemy intitle:The intitle:Career intitle:Programmer</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2007/09/27/useless-tip-of-the-day-there-is-no-ctrl-f-in-books.aspx#5211036Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:59:48 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:5211036zzz<p>What book(s) are you talking about? All my books are in electronic form and if they don't have ctrl+f they do have index and search box. Are you trying to say that someone still reads Legacy-format books?</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2007/09/27/useless-tip-of-the-day-there-is-no-ctrl-f-in-books.aspx#9006897Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:41:38 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9006897Секреты Visual Studio<p>Иногда что-то заставляет меня нажимать Ctrl+C вместо Ctrl+V, находясь на пустой строке. Не могу понять</p>