Command+SpaceBar (Zoom Tool) issues

So it's been many generations now that the Zoom tool shortcut hasn't worked for me. I'm wondering how many other people have this problem and if they have figured out how to fix it.
years ago I recall Apple making the dumb move of making +Space being a shortcut to Search, and I think that's when this stopped working. Disabling this function in OSX doesn't seem to bring back the Acrobat function properly. I cold care less about Spotlight. It's useless anyway, can't search worth a crap. So I've never had that short cut on anyway.
Currently to get the Zoom tool to appear, I have to press +Space many times together before the zoom tool correctly shows up. After doing this, to get it tom come back again only requires pressing the 2 together a couple times before it shows up.
I've had this problem for years now.
Anyone else have this?
Anyone fix this?
Am I crazy?

No problem, I just found the same issue again.
I just found that there are TWO places to turn the spotlight keystroke off (and reset it). First in the keyboard pref I mentioned above and secondly at the bottom of the separate Spotlight Preference in System prefs. I turned it off in both places and now I don't have the problem anymore. I can still call spotlight by clicking the menubar, so no loss of functionality.
Also, as an aside, I have always called the zoom function by pressing the 'Command' key first and then the spacebar. If you swap the order you press these two keys then Spotlight doesn't seem to be invoked. But this is a hassle to relearn after so many years. Just in case it helps,
All the best,

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