Searching in mail isn't my favorite thing either. Turn quick-Nav off. Hit command-option-f to get to the search field. Once you enter your keyword, arrow down, this is where you can narrow down your selections such as sender, subject, etc. I think once you come across the one you want, you enter on it.
Good luck, Traci On Mar 25, 2014, at 9:32 AM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have never been a big fan of the Mac mail search, and I don't use it that > often. Having just recently upgraded to Mavericks, I kept my classic mail > view, and today was the first time I tried to do a search in mail. In the > tool bar, I found the search box and typed in my term. It seems that the > default is to search the entire message, not just the subject or from or > whatever else. There is a menu button that says the search text followed by > the words entire message or something like that. I tried to activate that > button, assuming that I would get to change to just subject, but nothing > happened when I did that. Can somebody please explain how to limit a search > to just a given field? > > Mary > > Mary Otten > motte...@gmail.com > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
