# Find Dialog Box

To find a string of text, enter it in the Find text box and press Enter or Return (or click Find Next).

- Click on the Find Backward checkbox to change the direction of the search.
- Click on the Ignore Case checkbox to cause the search to be case sensitive.
- Use the Control + F key as a shortcut for opening the Find dialog box. Use the F3 to repeat the find operation in the forward direction. Use Shift + F3 to repeat the find operation in the backward direction.
- Both the Find and Replace dialog boxes automatically place text selected in the editor window in the Find text box.
- Both the Find and Replace dialog boxes maintain a list of the 20 most recent strings. You can move up down the list using the arrow keys when the Find text box has focus.
- Regular expressions (substitution characters) are not supported in this release.

See also:

  Editing Source
  Editor Controls