Search function cannot detect special characters

[ella_1438]

I am simply trying to find and replace some text strings in my PDF that contain colons and periods. However, the search function doesn't seem to work when I include these characters -- it finds 0 instances. It also cannot detect @ signs or slashes. If I use Advanced Search, it finds them just fine, but there's no option for find and replace in advanced search. This seems like a very basic function so I'm a little confused here, am I missing something? 

Thanks for your help!

[try67]

Just tried it and it worked fine. Can you share a sample file where you encounter this issue?

[ella_1438]

Sure, here's a sample page. I'm using version 2024.003.20180 for Mac, which is the latest version.

I tried the search in Acrobat for web, and it did work, however there does not seem to be a find and replace function in the web version so I'm still out of luck. Thanks so much for your help!

[try67]

Works fine for me:

Note that because of the structure of PDF files the slashes are considered a part of the word that precedes them, but they are recognized and found when searching for them.

[ella_1438]

Uninstalled and reinstalled the program and it's now working, although it's still acting weirdly -- it tells me there are no results but finds them anyway. Thanks!