search and replace " and " with " & "

[sc-askliboquestions]

Writer 6.4 in Debian, when asked to replace the 5 char string “ and ” with the 3 char string “ & ”, replaces and’s along with other seemingly random strings. Further, it doesn’t replace the leading or following blanks. How can I get around this. Note the prior version of Writer I was using did this correctly.

EDIT: Version 6.4.5.2. LeroyG’s suggestion worked. “Similarity Search” was accidentally toggled on and not noticed (hence trying a literal find/replace with spaces too). However, I do see that even without spaces & checking whole words only & toggling off the similarity search it still skips the title at the top of the document. But that isn’t worth futzing around and spending more time on it.

[Hrbrgr]

Which operating system du you use?

>prior version of Writer

Which version?

Why do you include spaces in the "Search and Replace" function?

[LeroyG]

@sc-askliboquestions, Would you share a edited copy of the file with a few words plus the and in the title? To share a file, press edit below your question and use the paper clip.

[sc-askliboquestions]

I have to confess - after updating this question, I later realized that the “title” was actually text in a heading, not in the body of the document.

[LeroyG]

Try without spaces and checking Whole words only. (Version: 6.4.7.2 (x86)).

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