The cross-reference search function is unable to find text enclosed in "quotation marks"

[Intuos5]

If I search for "find this text" with the opening and closing quotation marks, the cross reference search does not find any paragraphs associated with them.

 

Nor does it find the text without the quotation marks.

 

The current workaround is to add other text in front and to delete it thereafter. Should be simple enough to reproduce, you can copy the "find this text" line from the forums to test with.
It is in Affinity Publisher 2.4.0, Windows 10.

Cross-reference cut paste.afpub

[walt.farrell]

Your .afpub file does not contain the text "find this text", though it does contain ”find this quote” (with the word quote rather than text, and with curly (typographic) quotes rather than straight quotes.

[walt.farrell]

If you correct both of those, the Cross Reference filtering works when I test it in your document.

[Intuos5]

49 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Your .afpub file does not contain the text "find this text", though it does contain ”find this quote” (with the word quote rather than text, and with curly (typographic) quotes rather than straight quotes.

Could be I typed something else here, I used the same quotation mark character here as on the forums (Shift + '/" on US international). The issue is clear, saw it happen multiple times with various cross-references, before I decided to post it here.

E: Could be that the search field interprets quotation marks differently (i.e. doesn't change them to curly open/ close).

[walt.farrell]

23 minutes ago, Intuos5 said:

Could be I typed something else here, I used the same quotation mark character here as on the forums (Shift + '/" on US international). The issue is clear, saw it happen multiple times with various cross-references, before I decided to post it here.

E: Could be that the search field interprets quotation marks differently (i.e. doesn't change them to curly open/ close).

In Publisher Settings, Auto-Correct, you can choose "Change straight quotes to typographic quotes". If you do that, then when you type ' or " using the Artistic Text Tool or the Frame Text Tool you will get a typographic quote. This only applies when typing, and only when typing into one of those text objects.

It does not apply when you type a ' or " into the Find or Replace field (Find and Replace) nor into the search field (Insert Cross-Reference). There, if you want a typographic quote you must figure out how to type it directly, or you must use copy/paste to add it.

[Intuos5]

Right. That's still a bit odd and not what you'd expect.

[Alfred]

5 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

if you want a typographic quote you must figure out how to type it directly, or you must use copy/paste to add it

https://symbols.typeit.org