Tim Be Posted November 6, 2023 Share Posted November 6, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 6, 2023 Share Posted November 6, 2023 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? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Be Posted November 7, 2023 Author Share Posted November 7, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted November 7, 2023 Staff Share Posted November 7, 2023 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 Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Be Posted November 7, 2023 Author Share Posted November 7, 2023 @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? joe_l 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted November 7, 2023 Staff Share Posted November 7, 2023 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. Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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