Find and replace doesn’t find all instances

[Heide]

I am running Publisher 2 on my IPad.

i am trying to apply a non-break character style to the last 13 characters of each paragraph. I am using .{13}$ in the find. I am running this on a whole book, but when I run the find it only finds 245 instances. This is a 245 page book so there should be thousands of instances.

I don’t see any pattern such as punctuation that would indicate the problem.

I’ve put in a screenshot of one of the pages. On this page it only picked up the first and fourth paragraph.

does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this?

 

 

[walt.farrell]

I'm not seeing that behavior, nor do I have any thoughts what might cause it.

I am curious, though, about that "refresh" button at the left of the Find field. I don't see that. Instead, I have a settings or options button (a cog), to set the options used by the Find operation. What release of Publisher 2 are you running?

Can you share the document? Or create a new document with at least that page in it, and share that?

[Heide]

Mine is also a cog. I am running 2.5.7.2948

[Heide]

Oh I see what you're seeing now. The cog for the replace section has 'refresh' around it because I have the character style set for the replace option. 

[Heide]

I just tried it again and this time it found 1248 instances. More realistic. But, when I use Replace All, it only replaces one at a time. I'm think it's because I'm on the Ipad. I will have to try this on my desktop and see if I get the same result. 

[walt.farrell]

17 hours ago, Heide said:

But, when I use Replace All

Replace All works on my iPad (though locating the function could be made more obvious), but I can't say how it would work on your file, of course.

Thanks for explaining why you have that version of the cog showing; I had never noticed that.