Searching a resource via Ctrl+F for an exact word match

I found an old post in the Logos 4 forum advising on how it's possible to do a search for an exact word match...

Robert Pavich:
when you want any exact word search just uncheck "match all word forms" under the drop down from the tab.

However, I don't think that works when searching directly within a resource. At present, for example, I have Fr Devin's new book, "Fulfilled in Christ" open. I am searching via Ctrl + F for any mentions of the word "sea", but I keep finding seal and season. Is it possible to restrict the resource search to prevent it searching all word forms within the resource?? I tried searching "sea" and =sea, but to no avail...

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George Somsel

You would probably have more success if you simply did a basic search for the word within the work. You should then get the exact match and not need to follow the rabbit trail to the end since it would be presented in a list.

NB.Mick

I found an old post in the Logos 4 forum advising on how it's possible to do a search for an exact word match...

Robert Pavich: when you want any exact word search just uncheck "match all word forms" under the drop down from the tab.

However, I don't think that works when searching directly within a resource.

The parameter Robert mentioned drives the Logos search (the large magnifier glass) including the Inline Search feature of Logos 6 and will work exactly like this. Inline search in "Fulfilled in Christ" will give only "sea", none of the others.

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Ctrl-F search is a different thing altogether - it doesn't run on indexes but on raw text, it doesn't take any parameters etc. - its benefit is that it may search punctuation and footnote characters etc. which are left out of the search indexes.

MJ. Smith

Answered on other thread

Rayner

The parameter Robert mentioned drives the Logos search (the large magnifier glass) including the Inline Search feature of Logos 6 and will work exactly like this. Inline search in "Fulfilled in Christ" will give only "sea", none of the others.

Thank you for the answer. My default is to use Ctrl+F because that's how I use every other application. That's really helpful, and also thank you to MJ for responding on the other thread. (Sorry, I realised too late I'd posted on the Logos 4 board, which I assumed that mostly people don't access). I'll have to get into the habit of trying to remember to click the magnifier. (I couldn't find whether it's possible to switch off the exact search function from the magnifier).

As a side point, I was trying to figure out whether there was any significance in Jesus retreating to the sea in Mk 3:7 (and then to the mountain in Mk 3:13). What might/does the sea represent? Will have to do some more searching.

George Somsel

Sometimes a sea is simply a sea. In this case, the Sea of Galilee. Now, the mountain might be another matter since from time immemorial man has felt that he is closer to God at a higher elevation though I'm inclined to think that in both cases he was seeking privacy.

Rayner

Sometimes a sea is simply a sea. In this case, the Sea of Galilee. Now, the mountain might be another matter since from time immemorial man has felt that he is closer to God at a higher elevation though I'm inclined to think that in both cases he was seeking privacy.

Well, the mountain perhaps alludes to Moses meeting God on mount Sinai eg. from the ICC on Matthew, "The typology is thus extensive and consistently thought through. So when Jesus goes up on the mountain to utter the sermon on the mount, he is speaking as the mosaic Messiah and delivering messianic Torah." Hence my curiosity about the sea in Mark's gospel...