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[By Design] Command-F / Search for whole sentences or parts of whole sentences


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Hi there, I tried using Publisher to search for whole sentences in a long document (168 pages). Is that even possible? Seems to me it dosen't work (Beta 337)

Best regards, Puck

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What do you exactly mean by "whole sentences"?

Searching for more than 1 word and words + punctuation marks do work for me, for instance:
"
Description, Body text block with several lines and then –> back to style 1 (Year)."

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In case a search contains "invisible characters" like line or paragraph breaks a simple copy/paste into F&R does not work, instead you need to replace those manually in the search text field via the pulldown menu to its left to make them work.

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Also, a search may fail if it gets restricted by the filter list (< gear icon top right):

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1 hour ago, thomaso said:

What do you exactly mean by "whole sentences"?

Searching for more than 1 word and words + punctuation marks do work for me, for instance:
"
Description, Body text block with several lines and then –> back to style 1 (Year)."

Thank you so much for your efforts. Now I get it.

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16 hours ago, GabrielM said:

Thanks for raising this issue - we have closed it as "by design". 

It's been a pleasure!

:)

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