I have hit into this perhaps bug before, but that time I was not able to reproduce the problem. And I was not able to re-open the case.
This time I recorded video about the problem and I wonder what I do wrong? I try to search and replace *-character, but Writer do not find it. Not from typing, not from copying the character.
Video at: Youtube
Most likely this is something very simple what I do not figure out, because most of the time search and replace works.
Have you tray to uncheck the box “Regular Expressions”?
Wow! That was it! I do know why that setting was enabled since last use, but that seems to fix the problem. Thank you very much!
Asterisk is a character reserved for regular expressions
Yes it is. However, if you copy paste text from LLM (LM Studio etc), they use Markdown and bolded text are translated to ** etc. For the SUNO (AI Music creation) I need to remove them.
If you do need to find * and use regular expressions at the same time then you can just escape it \*