Adam wrote:
> Yup. But in the meantime, if you did it already, you could try these
> keystrokes between searches.  ALT W ALT M. Hit ENTER again.

Those are just shortcuts for the Scope values. Alt + W toggles the
Search for Scope: 'Anywhere' value, Alt + M toggles the 'Memo' value.
You must be on the Options tab for this to work.

If the previous search was looking at more than one scope, I'm now
looking at at least three shortcut keystrokes...

While I appreciate the suggestion (and in fact, had not tried the
shortcuts before - thanks), all I would be doing is individually
selecting the Scope choices again - ultimately replacing the mouse
checks with keyboard shortcuts.  Probably faster, but hardly an
acceptable solution.

The problem is a fundamental flaw in how the GUI is set up. *ALL* the
scope fields except 'Memo' can be used in combination for an inclusive
search (search on Subject OR Body, etc.) Selecting 'Memo' suddenly
changes the search logic to AND. There is no warning, no label, no
explanation for this to the user. Just unexpected/false search results.

In addition, selecting 'Anywhere' implies that the search will use a
scope of all the items listed below. Not only is 'Memo' NOT separated or
labeled differently - it's not even at the end of the list! It looks
like just another scope choice.

That's just crazy.  The implication is clearly that 'Memo' should behave
just as 'Headers' or 'Body' does.  Poor execution with little to no
usability testing. This really should be considered a bug, IMO.

-- 
 Ken Green
 Using The Bat! v1.62r on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 4


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