document updated 18 years ago, on May 5, 2008
ALL apps with a search function should be able to highlight all matches, per the maxim "The eye is
faster than the finger". There's no point to hitting Find-Next over and over, when your visual
system has very refined pattern-detectors, and when the scroll-wheel is faster than nearly any other
form of input.
[firefox] easy (in v2.0)
[ms word] easy
[vim] :set hlsearch
[excel] click "Find All", then press Ctrl+A (the cells will be selected outside of the dialog as well)
[msie] http://www.ie7pro.com/download.php