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The Windows 11 Notepad has been redesigned and features a new find/replace window. Let's say I have the following text:

screenshot without find

and I jump to the start of the text and search for all occurrences of "amet":

find screenshot

The position marker in the lower left-hand corner (highlighted by me) indicates that the word has been found in the first line, but I can't see it, because the find window is in the way.

Is there a way to move the find window so that I can see the results without having to close and re-open the find window?

Albin
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Heinzi
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There is an easy way to solve this, as soon as the search window is shown it's possible to scroll up, so the search window does hide anything anymore:

Without search window: enter image description here

With search window (you can see the scrollbar indicator changed): enter image description here

Now it's possible to scroll up ("above" the first line): enter image description here

Albin
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This new Find window seems to have been introduced with the latest Windows 11 update. I agree that the implementation is very badly designed with this window being placed always in the middle of the notepad window.

For the moment, I think that all you can do is write a bug-report using the Feedback Hub, and wait for Microsoft to do something about it.

In the meantime, the only workaround I was able to find is to widen the notepad window enough for the Find to move to the right of the text.

You could also move to a third-party product, for example the free and excellent Notepad++.
See also How to replace Notepad with Notepad++ in Windows 10.

harrymc
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