>"form focus" entered for Search criteria returns zero results. Does this imply that there are no messages in the database where these 2 words appear in the same message?

It is an exact match for now. The next step is to make it as Google. So, if you would enter "report form" followed by foxpro, it would then find the messages having "report form" as exact with an OR on foxpro. This might take a few days.