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dc1999@earthlink.net - 11 Apr 2006 15:38 GMT

In the latest paid Eudora for Windows, there's a very sophisticated
find utility; for example, one can find all messages from smith to
jones or vice versa by using two entries. You can search on virtually
anything, such as subject, to, from, cc, dates before and after, etc.
If you've ever saved several thousand messages on a given case or
matter over the course of a couple years, that's really important.
This utility is activated by cntl-f.

I'm puzzled that in Eudora for the Mac, paid ver 6.2, the find command
is quite limited, but the Search utility seems to fill the same
function as the Windows version "find." I'm new to the iMac -- have a
brand new Intel dual core and love it -- so these differences seem
larger than I'm used to.

Dave

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Kathy Morgan - 11 Apr 2006 19:28 GMT

> I'm puzzled that in Eudora for the Mac, paid ver 6.2, the find command
> is quite limited, but the Search utility seems to fill the same
> function as the Windows version "find."

I usually prefer the power of the Search command, so I've changed the
preference so Cmd-F calls up the Search function. You can do that under
Settings | Moving Around | Exchange Find and Search menu command keys.

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Sander Tekelenburg - 12 Apr 2006 21:20 GMT

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[WinEudora apparently brings up Search on Ctrl-f]

> I'm puzzled that in Eudora for the Mac, paid ver 6.2, the find command
> is quite limited, but the Search utility seems to fill the same
> function as the Windows version "find." I'm new to the iMac

In most Mac applications of this and the past millenium Cmd-f means
"find me string x within the frontmost open window". Much of the Mac OS'
usefulness is achieved through such consistency. Hence it makes sense
that in Eudora too, Cmd-f invokes that simple function -- that the more
powerful Search function is invoked differently. (On my machine Search
is invoked through Cmd-Option-f (I believe that's the default?), which
makes sense, because another long-standing Mac OS consistency feature is
that the Option key means "do x, slightly different".)

Still, if you want, you can configure Eudora to bring up the Search
function upon Cmd-f (I believe somewhere in the prefs you can switch the
keyboard shortcuts for Find and Sarch around). If I were you though, I'd
only do that if you need to regularly use Ctrl-f in Win Eudora, because
that would give *you* consistency. If however your only problem is
'deconditioning' and getting used to Mac conventions, I would suggest
you give the defaults a bit more time to get used to, or you'll only be
creating inconsistency for yourself.

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