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Eudora incorporates a Find function that searches
for specific text within a single message, multiple
messages, or even multiple mailboxes. To display
the Find sub-menu of commands, select Find from the
Edit menu.
To search for text within a single message, open the
message and make sure it is current. Then, select
Find from the Edit menu and select the Find command from the sub-menu. The Find dialog is then displayed, with the blinking insertion point located
in the text field.
Type the text you want to find in the text field.
When finished entering the desired text, click the
Find button.
Starting at the insertion point of the open message,
Eudora searches the current message for the
specified text. If no match is found, the not found
alert is displayed.
If the search is successful, the message is scrolled
to the first point where the match is found and the
matching text is highlighted.
To continue searching in the same message for the
next occurrence of the text, click the Find button
in the Find dialog, or select the Find Again command
from the Find sub-menu. These commands are
equivalent and limit the search to the same message.
Repeating these commands cycles through the matches
in the open message only.
If you don’t want to actually type the text in the
Find dialog (for example, the text is very long or
complex), highlight it in an existing message, and
then select Enter Selection from the Find
sub-menu. This automatically inserts the selected text at the insertion point in the Find dialog. Then, select
the Find command from the Find sub-menu to start the
search.
The Next, Next Message, and Next Mailbox commands
are located in the Find sub-menu (under the Edit
menu) or as buttons in the Find dialog.
The Next command allows you to search for the next
match of the specified text until it is found either
in the same message or among all messages in the
current mailbox.
Note: The Next command initiated in an open mailbox (even with message[s] selected) searches for the specified text among all messages contained in that mailbox. The search begins with the first selected message.
The Next Message command begins the search at the
message after the current message. Eudora continues
to search until it finds a matching character
string, even if it has to open more than one message
or a new mailbox.
The Next Mailbox command begins the search for the
specified text in the mailbox following the current
mailbox. The search is conducted among all messages
in that mailbox and any subsequent mailboxes,
including the In, Out, and Trash mailboxes. The
search includes all mailboxes, even if they are
contained in mailbox folders or sub-folders.
Note: Mailboxes are searched in the order they are listed under the Mailbox menu until the current mailbox is reached.
Note: When the character string is found in a message, the mailbox containing that message is checked in the Mailboxes menu. This identifies the location of the message.
If you know the text you are searching for is
included in a message summary, check the Summaries
Only option in the Find dialog. When you click the
Find button, Eudora searches for the text only in
the sender and subject fields of message summaries
as they appear in mailbox windows. Eudora searches
much faster when this option is checked.
Normally, Eudora ignores capitalization when
searching. If you want Eudora to consider
capitalization when searching, check the Match case
option in the Find dialog. When this option is
checked, Eudora searches for exact matches of
character strings, including any capitalization.
If you want to stop Eudora from continuing a search,
hold down the [command] key and type a period [.].
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