The Mysterious Disappearing, Reappearing Search Box
This is something that happens sometimes upon opening a book in the Edit function for the first time only. It has no rhyme or reason; it happens with both "native" and "converted" epubs, whether metadata has been changed or not, and so on. It's a minor issue at most with an easy workaround. (It's been going on since some time in version 3; that I'm just getting around to this should show exactly how much actual "trouble" it is.) It happens about one in four times, but very inconsistently:
Sometimes, upon opening a book in the Edit function, the Search functions subpane (bottom of the center pane) isn't there. There's no obvious "open the search pane" menu item, although using the dropdown menu Search | Replace brings up an error message complaining that there was nothing specified to search for, and helpfully reinstates the missing subpane.
Is there a way to force Edit Books to always show the Search functions subpane? Or, alternatively, is there an icon/command that can be dragged into the interface, or item added to the Search menu, to toggle display of the Search functions subpane?
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