Find and Replace Function Not Working in InDesign 2025

[RimRisse]

Since I use indesign 2025 I can no longer replace a word (Find and Replace - Zoeken/wijzigen) with a new word across the entire document. Is there an update coming that will work properly?

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[LemonFresh]

Awesome sauce. So grateful for all your help!

[Mike Witherell]

Did you patch up to v20.0.1 ?

[LemonFresh]

Yes. My 2016 macbook pro is running Monterey 12.7.6 though, and I wonder if that is the issue. Stopped updating (too old, I think) a little while back.

[Laubender]

Hi @RimRisse ,

all of the FEFF special characters are remnants of your data merge process.

You can get rid of it with a TEXT Find/Change action.

You will NOT get rid of them with GREP Find/Change.

When in TEXT Find search with this pattern:

<FEFF>

Leave the Change field empty to remove all FEFF special characters in the document.

See my screenshot from my German InDesign 2025 where 372 special characters were removed:

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

[Peter Spier]

From your screen shot it looks to me like you are just trying to change the capitalization. Try clicking the Aa button to turn on case sensitivity.