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Quick question for Andy York or site designers really - on searching - is it possible to go into a topic with many pages and go straight to page you want without having used Google/firefox and bookmarking first? i.e. using the inbuilt RMWeb search facility and entering a page number?.

 

reason I ask I was looking thro APT-E topic to find out how to dismantle bogies - made a paper(!yeah ok!!) note of page (108) because I also needed to find out how to disconnect coaches couldn't find it straight away - came out and found that within RMWeb could not pick up a 175 page topic and go to req'd page w/o individually stepping thro 175/4/3/2/ et seq.... (or pp 1/2/3/4.......) - quickly ended up doing a firefox google search second time around (and bookmarking no-one can say I didn't learn... 2nd time around !!)

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This is the URL for page 108 of  that thread:

 

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/87114-the-official-rapido-apt-e-thread/page-108

 

(Hover your mouse pointer over the link to see the full version.)

 

You should be able to see how it's done from that: append "/page-"<page number> to the URL for the thread.  If you end up on a random page within the thread eg by following a link in another post, simply scroll to the end of the URL and change the page number.  Works on any thread AFAIK.

 

Personally, I hardly ever use the search facility within RMWeb itself.  I find that Google works as well and usually better by simply appending "rmweb" to the search term.  You can narrow the hits down a bit by enclosing search phrases such as "catch points" in quotes.  If you want to be really particular you can use the Google search qualifier "site:www.rmweb.co.uk".  Again, if you end up on the wrong page in the thread it's easy to navigate to the right one if you know the page number.

 

As an example, Googling 'catch points rmweb' has 15,900 hits whereas '"catch points" rmweb' has 493 hits, and '"catch points" site:www.rmweb.co.uk' has 361.  However, Google is pretty good at putting the most relevant hits first so you're unlikely to find yourself having to wade through thousands of hits if (like me) you are a bit lazy in specifying the search.

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