How to Search Words on a Page?

Desktop browsers

1. Click the page so it's focused (not the address bar).
2. Ctrl+F or Cmd+F.
3. Type the text. Matches highlight as you type.
4. Enter or the next/previous arrows move between hits. Esc closes the bar.

Same shortcut in: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, and most in-browser PDF viewers. In Adobe Acrobat and many native PDF apps it's also Ctrl/Cmd+F.

On a phone

• Chrome (Android): ⋮ menu → Find in page.
• Safari (iPhone): Share or page-menu → Find on Page (wording varies by iOS version).
• Chrome (iOS): ⋮ → Find in Page.

Find in page vs. searching the whole web: Ctrl+F only looks at what's already loaded on that tab (including a lot of the HTML text). It will not search other sites, hidden tabs, or text that's only in an image unless OCR is involved. For a whole site, use that site's own search box or a site: Google query.

If nothing matches: the word might be in an image, inside an iframe ad, or spelled differently. Try a shorter unique chunk of the word.

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