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The second icon in the Activity Bar is “Search”.

Clicking it shows the search interface:

You can click the icons in the Search input box to make the search case-sensitive, to match whole words (not substrings), and to use a regular expression for the search string.

To perform a search, type something and press Enter.

Clicking the ▷ symbol on the left enables the “search and replace” tool.

Clicking the three dots shows a panel that lets you include specific kinds of files and exclude other files:

Lessons in this unit:

0: Introduction
1: The interface
2: Opening folders
3: Editing
4: ▶︎ Search
5: Source control
6: Extensions
7: Themes
8: Recommended extensions
9: The command palette
10: Shortcuts
11: Customization
12: Terminal
13: How to use VS Code