Ctrl-f

is there a way to do a default windows ctrl-f to find data that is in the unrendered part of the grid(i have it working with the rendered area), or is this something i will have to override and make myself?

Well, you can disable virtual rendering with setVirtualMode(false) but this makes the grid very slow with large datasets. Normally the non-visible part of the grid is not rendered into HTML/DOM, so the browser does not know anything about it. In this case you have to implement the search yourself using the dataset directly.