Hello all. My love of asking questions has been stifled by my fear that a thread I might make could already exist. Is there any quick search tool for the forums or will I have to just tough it out and search page by page until I find and/ or don't find what it is I'm looking for?
Thanks in advance for any answers.

You can use the site search tool (upper right corner). It's annoying because it brings up results separately for the different language versions of the site, so you'll have multiple hits for the same page, but you'll find it.

Anyway, you can relax and ask your questions. Do try the search tool but don't knock yourself out over it, and as long as it's not something inflammatory ("I have a great idea for reforming Esperanto, what do you think?" would be an example), don't hesitate to ask, even if it ends up being a double.

Also, judging by the number of times things come up repeatedly, most people don't seem to search the threads before asking again. So if you put only very minimal effort into it, it will already put you way above most of the site's users. And if you didn't do it at all, no one would even notice.