Apple Mail: Selecting multiple messages with a common field

Greetings ...
I'm in the midst of moving from Eudora to Apple Mail (I know, I'm old), and I'm looking through all documentation online and here in Apple Support but can't find if there's a way to do this:
In Eudora, I used to be able to Option-click on an email header's "From:" column in a mailbox, and instantly all mail in that mailbox with the matching "From:" header would be grouped together and highlighted.
This enabled me, for instance, to take action (delete, transfer, etc.) on all email from one particular source at one time with a minimum of clicks.
(This worked for any field, btw -- I could group a thread of emails on the same topic together by option-clicking on the Subject: field.)
I've tried every key combination I can think of to elicit the same response from Apple Mail. Am I missing something?
Thanks,
mlb

What happens when you type say the sender, or part of subject line in the search field. This should narrow your view to display only those emails matching the criteria entered in the search.
From: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2500
Searching Mail
Need to find a certain email message or a string of them? You can search for specific text in any message in any mailbox using the Search field in Mail, which is powered by Spotlight technology, to find what you need fast.
Type the text that you want to search for, like "Grandma" or "New York itinerary", in the Search field in the upper-right corner of the Mail window.
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