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NotebookFind

NotebookFind[notebook, data]
sets the current selection in the specified notebook object to be the next occurrence of data.

NotebookFind[notebook, data, Previous]
sets the current selection to be the previous occurrence.

NotebookFind[notebook, data, All]
sets the current selection to be all occurrences.

NotebookFind[notebook, data, dir, elems]
searches the elements of cells specified by elems.

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NotebookFind returns $Failed if the search it performs finds no occurrence of data.

notebook must be a NotebookObject, as returned by NotebookOpen, etc.

data can be a string, box expression, or a complete cell.

The possible elements are:

	CellContents	contents of each cell, represented as a string
	CellLabel	setting for the CellLabel option of each cell
	CellStyle	name of style for each cell
	CellTags	parts of the setting for the CellTags option for each cell
	{elem₁,elem₂,...}	list of different types of elements

The default for elems is CellContents. Only the contents of boxes, not their styles or options, are included in the search.

Unless the option setting AutoScroll->False is given, the front end will scroll a notebook so that the result of NotebookFind is visible. »

The front end will also usually highlight the region corresponding to the result.

Basic Examples (1)

Create a notebook:

Find an occurrence of the letters "at":

NotebookLocate SelectionMove NotebookOpen Find

Manipulating Notebooks from the Kernel

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