Find and Replace can't find words with apostrophes or quotes

[Tim Be]

I am using Affinity 2.2.1 with Windows 11.

The title is self explanatory, and it doesn't matter whether it is something I typed into Publisher or copied and pasted from Word.

[walt.farrell]

Screenshots and/or a sample .afpub file might help. But to start, is it possible that the actual text has typographic (curved) quote marks or apostrophes, but your Search text in Find and Replace has typewriter (straight) marks?

[Tim Be]

Yes, I have pasted smart quotes into Publisher, but this is still must be a mistake from Affinity and not how they intended the Find function to work. Google, Word, and probably every other computer program don't differentiate between different kinds of apostrophes and quotation marks when doing a search because this would be a terribly foolish and thoroughly unhelpful thing to do.

[Callum]

This is currently working as intended however we would like to improve this behaviour so it works as Tim described in the future.

Thanks
C

[Tim Be]

@Callum It is really hard to believe that Affinity would do something so utterly stupid, but at least thank you for being honest. Affinity admitting there is a serious bug would be so much less shameful than admitting to having intentionally made a faulty function.

Anyhow, if this is working as intended, then please tell us what steps we should take in order to find, for example, the word can't in a document since simply typing it in the Find box does not work. Is there some way to type a smart quote into the Find box?

Also, can you let us know if there any other symbols that Affinity does not know how to search for, or is it only apostrophes and quotation marks?

 

 

[Callum]

At this point in time you would have to copy and paste a smart quote into the find box. Alternatively you could try the following ALT codes.