How can I search for email senders and/or email subject(s)?

I'm probably not savvy enough to figure this out. When I search, e.g. for "Katie" I get to look at several messages where she is cc'd. I also receive messages from "Katie." How do I search for them? I know they are there because I just sent one to trash the other day. I suspect there are a number of them in trash. The only way I seem to be able to access them is to scroll...and that's a bummer.

Hello.
*You can click in the search field in the ThunderBird toolbar.
*Type the words you are looking for such as email the email address
*Hit enter or select an auto completion choice
To narrow search results:
*Click any year, month or day to show only results from that time. Click the looking glass to zoom out.
*If you cannot see the timeline, click the timeline icon in the top right corner.
*Hover over any filter, person, folder, tag, account or mailing list in the left pane to see where in time and on the timeline the messages matching the filter are located.
To exclude persons, folders or other criteria from search results:
*Click the unwanted person, tag, etc..
*Select can't be… from the menu that comes up.
To reduce results to a particular contact, account or other criterion:
*Click the desired person, folder, etc..
*Select must be… from the menu that comes up.
To filter your search results:
*Check From Me to see only messages sent from one of your email addresses.
*Check To Me that include you as a recipient.
*Check Starred to see only starred messages.
*Check Attachments to see only messages that include attached files.
To open any message, click its subject line in search results. To act on multiple messages or see more details, click Open as list at the top of the results list.
I got this from [http://email.about.com/od/mozillathunderbirdtips/qt/Search_Mail_in_Mozilla_Thunderbird.htm here]. Go ahead and click that link if you need anymore help! Cheers.

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