diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/app.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/app.rs
index a132dbe..1b68ce1 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/app.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/app.rs
@@ -7393,6 +7393,16 @@ impl NoteCraftApp {
             // press made them together.
             self.undo();
         }
+        // Ctrl+F, and OneNote's Ctrl+E, go to the search box. Taken before the page sees
+        // them: with the caret in the page, the key went nowhere and the words typed to find
+        // something were written into the note (issue #134). The code view has a Find of its
+        // own for the file it shows, so it keeps Ctrl+F while it is open.
+        if !self.show_source && ctx.input_mut(|i| i.consume_key(Modifiers::COMMAND, Key::F) || i.consume_key(Modifiers::COMMAND, Key::E)) {
+            if let Some(caret) = self.editor.as_mut().and_then(|ed| ed.caret.as_mut()) {
+                caret.focus = false;
+            }
+            self.focus_search = true;
+        }
         self.nav_keys(ctx);
         self.direction_keys(ctx);
         self.hierarchy_keys(ctx);
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/tests/ui.rs b/crates/ui-egui/tests/ui.rs
index dd44b9c..5ce9068 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/tests/ui.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/tests/ui.rs
@@ -607,6 +607,34 @@ fn clicking_a_page_opens_it_and_a_container_toggles() {
     review(&mut h, "markdown_page");
 }
 
+/// Issue #134: Ctrl+F with the caret in the page goes to the search box, and what is typed
+/// next is looked for, not written into the note. Ctrl+E, OneNote's key for it, does too.
+#[test]
+fn ctrl_f_in_the_page_goes_to_search_and_writes_nothing() {
+    for key in ["F", "E"] {
+        let (_t, mut app, s) = sample_app("ui-ctrl-f");
+        app.open_path(&s.html_page.to_string_lossy());
+        let mut h = harness(app, LIGHT);
+        settle(&mut h);
+        ask(&mut h, "ui.caret", json!({"block": 1})).expect("caret in the words");
+        settle(&mut h);
+        let before = h.state().body().unwrap_or_default().to_string();
+
+        ask(&mut h, "ui.key", json!({"key": key, "ctrl": true})).expect("Ctrl+key");
+        settle(&mut h);
+        ask(&mut h, "ui.text", json!({"text": "findneedle"})).expect("type a query");
+        settle(&mut h);
+
+        let after = h.state().body().unwrap_or_default().to_string();
+        assert!(!after.contains("findneedle"), "Ctrl+{key}: nothing typed went into the note:\n{after}");
+        assert_eq!(after, before, "Ctrl+{key}: the page is as it was");
+        assert!(
+            h.get_all_by_role(egui::accesskit::Role::TextInput).any(|node| node.value().as_deref() == Some("findneedle")),
+            "Ctrl+{key}: the query is in the search box"
+        );
+    }
+}
+
 /// The caret lives in the page: clicking a block and typing changes that block, and the page
 /// is written back in its own format. This is the editor the owner asked for, so it is tested
 /// for both formats.