Help Please! Searching for the search facility!

[Emurelda]

This is a noob question I know! But I cannot find that elusive tool.

I just came across Scrivener mentioned on Twitter and wanted to nosey what members here thought about it. And that's where I got stuck. Oh irony of ironies I can't even search for it. Help! :|

 

[Alistair Roberts]

Easy enough to google > http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php
but personally I don't see any reason to waste money when you can have a perfectly good writing/publisher program like Open Office for free. It can do more than a writer would ever want, including spreed-sheets etc. etc.. Check it out, would be my suggestion (and I've been using it for three years) >> https://www.openoffice.org/

 

[Emurelda]

Thanks for the openoffice suggestion.
I had a look online about scrivener. Google is definitely a great search facility yet I am still none the wiser about finding the search tool on this forum.

 

[Alistair Roberts]

No search tool on this forum that I know of?

 

[Emurelda]

Well the unexpected outcome is that I have downloaded Openoffice. The Universe gives you what you need not what you want.

 

[Alistair Roberts]

The bonus is it's well known, so that even print on demand sites like Lule recognise the file format (usually odt), but you can save files to doc, or docx etc..

 

[Karen Gray]

@Emurelda this tells you about basic search & replace in open office https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide/SearchReplace

On a side note, I pay about £7 a month for Microsoft office. Not just word but the whole lot

 

[Emurelda]

Ooops...am confusing issues here. I meant search facility for THIS forum. There isn't one - the consensus so far.

I had MS but to upgrade I have the option of paying the £7 per month or paying a few hundred for it but just downloading OpenOffice has surprisingly revealed that it does include the whole shebang. XL/powerpoint/word etc for free. Currently using it to see how it 'feels'.

 

[Karen Gray]

AH!!!! Ok I totally didn't get that lol! Blame it on fuzzy hardly any sleep morning brain I'm actually not sure Litopia has a search function, although I have to admit it would be really really useful.
@AgentPete Are we just not seeing it for looking at it?

 

[Emurelda]

Oh I know that fuzzy state very well .

Yes I would like to order a search facility too.

 

[AgentPete]

You know, I’m not sure why the search box isn’t displaying here. It’s nothing I can immediately see.

As a fix, you can simply use Google as follows... Prefix your Google search with...

site:colony.litopia.com


E.G.

site:colony.litopia.com emurelda

will find all (public) instances mentioning emurelda. It won’t find private forums, of course.