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is it possible to search archived threads?


I don't see a way to do that, but this forum has a feature I've never seen anywhere else... that is the "show all" feature (look in the lower right corner of the page, to the right of the page numbers.) This allows you to turn an 80 page thread into one BIG page. From there you can do a regular text search with CTRL+F through your browser (or whatever your browser calls it.)