The Doc's tip for finding the most recent postArchived Message
Posted by Dr. Ray Langston on March 4, 2011, 12:19 pm
I had mentioned this trick in a recent thread, and someone said they never knew it could be done. We have all seen some rather messy threads on here, with 50 + posts, and it can be hard to find the most recent post, if you have already read all or most of the thread, and want to follow the discussion.
Reponses to the originial post go to the bottom, but reponses to earlier response go slightly to the left, and we have seen how sideways a thread could get with many responses, without 10+ of searching, you can't find that recent post....
Thankfully, the thread overview may not tell you where it is, but it does tell you the time. We've all seen the line on the thread overview: (Copied from recent thread) View all; 7 responses, latest posted Today, 12:06 pm
Well, once you find out when it was posted (thanks to the thread overview), expand the thread, press the Control key and the "f" key at the same time, and a small box will appear, on the upper left if you have Internet Explorer, lower left if you have Firefox, click in the box, type the time, with the colon, in this example 12:06, and it will immediately highlight that exact post, click the X next to the box to close the find feature....
Just wanted to get this out in case anyone else didn't know about the Find feature in web browsers, or how to use it to find posts....
on March 4, 2011, 12:19 pm