Searching by a specific field within a report

Thanks so much for helping me figure this out. I have all of those icons in the upper right. 

Is it possible that someone a level above me has turned this off? I built the apps that my team is using, but I work at a graduate school, and I'm not the administrator of the account for the entire school. I could ask the account administrator to adjust something, but I'd want to make sure I know what I'm asking him to do. 

Thanks again!