Sorry, I see the search field you're talking about. I use the quick 
filter bar almost exclusively. It's quick, but the disadvantage is that 
it's just filtering the current folder. The quick filter bar is what I 
described below.


To use the field that you're talking about, a shift-tab away from the 
list of folders, just type the word or string you want to search for and 
press enter. You'll now get a tab with all sorts of ways to drill down 
into what you're looking for. Like I said, I don't tend to use this 
search feature myself, since I just tend to use the quick filter bar. 
Good luck!


On 09/30/2018 09:18 AM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
> Sounds like you're talking about the quick filter bar, which you can 
> also toggle on and off from the menu bar by going into View -> 
> Toolbars. I'm using Thunderbird on Linux with Orca, and when I shift 
> tab from my in box, I hear "Filter these messages Control+shift+k" and 
> end up in  a straight edit field. Just start to type what you want to 
> search for and the list of displayed messages will change as you type 
> each character to just those messages that contain the string you're 
> typing.
>
>
> On 09/30/2018 09:04 AM, Rachel wrote:
>> Can anyone tell me how I might go about searching for a particular 
>> message in Thunderbird?  If I shft-tab once from my list of 
>> mailboxes, it says "Search, ctrl-k," and there's a combobox there; 
>> but I can't seem to read any of the items in it with ctrl-down-arrow 
>> with JAWS 2018.  Is this Search feature not accessible with JAWS, or 
>> is there some other way to search for a message? I've never been able 
>> to figure out how to do this before.
>> Thanks for any help any of you can provide.
>> Rachel
>>
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