The search for the Hopf bifurcation point in power systems can be made as the load is increased by small steps, and a power flow is solved for every load until a pair of purely imaginary eigenvectors has been found (zero real part). However, a search through successive power flows is time-consuming and does not guarantee that the Hopf bifurcation point will be found. This paper proposes a methodology and strategies that mitigate these problems. To increase the possibility of finding the Hopf bifurcation point, a continuation power flow is used to stablish search paths as the loading is incremented according to a fraction of the maximum loading point of the power system. It is only at specific converged continuation power flow that the dynamic state Jacobian matrix is constructed and has its eigenvalues computed. To facilitate the understanding and application of the proposal, it is used the MATPOWER (version 7.0) computer program and two available power systems.