CTRL-F
CTRL-F is a free educational platform that helps students become more fact-checking aware and boost their critical thinking skills. The site is geared towards grades 7 thru 12 and is designed to help kids learn how to think critically about what they read in media like news stories, social media posts and even on their school website or email. It also teaches them how to find the facts by going through media sources with step-by-step guidance and activities.
The Ctrl F keyboard shortcut opens a find box on the screen of your current use program or document and lets you search for words or phrases. The tool is available for web pages, text files, pdf viewers and most word processing programs including Microsoft Word. Some spreadsheet programs and code editors support the feature as well.
When you hit the key combination of Ctrl and F, the popup window will let you type a word or phrase and highlight all the places where that word appears on the page or in the document you are working on. You can change the number of occurrences displayed and you can toggle on or off whether case or accent characters are included in your searches.
The software also allows you to customize which file types you would like to search through using the Ctrl F hotkey by selecting and ticking off specific checkboxes (such as MS Word docs) while leaving others unchecked. The tool also includes options that enable you to refine searches by limiting results to a certain number of lines of text, or specifying the minimum or maximum number of matches displayed.