It does not seem possible to be able to search records in a particular view.   If you change to that view and enter a search term, the results are returned containing records from All Customers.

Here is the problem   The 13 records below represent one customer.   12 of them are inactive.   you cannot get this result and then narrow it to active customers.    This adds tons of extra time/clicks to our day.    We need to be able to limiit our search to active customers.