Search for character style not working fine

[filippoguidarelli]

When I make a search based on 

- character styles

- selection

Im'm gaining a mess of results: the first one is correct, the others are not. Also, the incorrect results are the same result repeated many times, and it's impossibile to select. 

[eduardotanco]

Hi, can you provide an example file of the issue to further investigate?, I had this issue before, but was hidden text in the text frame that was detected if i remember.

[Old Bruce]

7 hours ago, filippoguidarelli said:

When I make a search based on 

- character styles

- selection

When I do this in Mac OS 12.7 I get that sort of result with the Scope set to Story but not in any of the other choices for Scope. I tested with a Character Style, not a Paragraph Style.

Try changing the "Ambito" to something other than Selezione and see if you get an expected result.

Regardless, there appears to be a bug here.

[MikeTO]

I struggled to duplicate but then realized there was an extra requirement. The bug occurs only when you search for a character style, set Scope to Story or Selection, and enter some text into the Find field. If the Find field is blank then the bug will not occur.

Here's a fuller description of the bug.

1. Enter "test test test" into a new doc's frame, where test is formatted with Strong.
2. Search for "test" and character style = Strong with Scope set to Document and you will get one result.
3. Repeat the test with Scope set to Story or Selection (select the text if you use Selection) and you will get three results - it finds all three instances of "test" even though only one has the character style applied

[Lee D]

Thank you @filippoguidarelli & @MikeTO I've logged this with the developers to look into.

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "Find and Replace: Searching for Character Style when Scope is set to Story or Selection" (REF: AF-1609) has been fixed by the developers in internal build "2.4.0.2237".
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