Find not finding every instance

[katiehawks]

Find and Find&Replace don’t always find every instance. I’ve had multiple occasions when I’m searching for something and I know the search term is in my document, but Find doesn’t pick it up (so I have to myself. Tedious). Sometimes closing and reopening the file improves matters. It’s not a format or match case, etc, problem, and to test things, I’ve opened documents in Google and Word and they seem to find things when Writer doesn’t. I’m using 6.0.7.3.

[jeshkhol]

I occasionally experience the same, even on current versions of LO.

Problems finding all occurrences of a text string

While copyediting in a large ODT file, I have problems finding certain character strings that indeed are present in the file. I noticed this after doing a large series of text replacements using “Replace All” across the whole document – when done I thought a task was completed, but a few hours later I found out that at some places, the character strings that had been replaced elsewhere in the file had remained unchanged at other places. A character string may not be found if the cursor is in a …

[ajlittoz]

If you expect any suggestion to improve your case, edit your question to give more factual elements about your search target. Don’t use a comment, modify the question. Mention OS name and, most important, save format (.odt vs. .doc(x)).

Give an example of a failure (search key or expression). Describe as accurately as possible a missed occurrence. Are there non-printing characters here, like soft-hyphen, word joiner or other special formatting characters? Does it happen frequently on characters with diacritics (accents)?

[mikekaganski]

… and maybe the searched text is contained e.g. in fields (tdf#70142)?