I've found the best method for general use here is to enter the one least common word that I think was in the thread title in the Filter box and set the Refresh time back to something reasonable.

I'm just too simple minded to ever be able to enter an entire thread title without at least one typo, and it only takes one to blow the whole search with most of the other methods smarter people use here.

When it looks like I've got it exactly right in the other search methods I might copy the whole title, and the one I thought was the right one, and paste them into Word where I can compare them side by side, and usually find a double-space or something else that crashed my search.

I do, fairly rarely, use more formal search methods if something is old enough that the 'cat engine would have to go back a really long time into the pits. Most of the "formal" searches built in here are by indexes, and the index has to be updated before the result will show. Updates are sporadic, and not really frequent.

John