Ctrl+F is a keyboard shortcut that lets you find words or phrases within a document or a webpage on a Windows computer. If you didn’t know such a shortcut existed, don’t worry. You’re not the only ...

Smartphones rarely let us miss our computers these days. Writing emails, editing videos, consuming content, the smart devices in the palm of our hands have become so powerful that they have been ...

The response to our story about how few people know how to find words in documents has touched a nerve. There have been basically three reactions: 1) Whoa! That's crazy! 2) No one knows keyboard ...

Looking for a specific word or phrase within a sea of text can be daunting without the right tools. Thankfully, all Mac computers come equipped with a find function, which lets you locate exact terms ...

Google remains the top choice for conducting Web searches. But you may not know that you can improve the chances of finding what you're looking for with a few simple tricks: using Ctrl-F, for example.

When you want to find a word in a document, you press CTRL or COMMAND and F, right? Alexis Madrigal at the Atlantic spoke with Dan Russell, a search anthropologist at Google, who conducted a study of ...