'Find' Function not Catching all Words

Under MenuBar>Edit>Find>Find>Advanced, when I enter in a word or phrase, the 'Find' feature only identifies 75% - 90% of the occurrences of the entered word or phrase. How do I correct this? Thanks.
appler505

Are you sure that there is no 'invisible' character embedded ?
Seems likely that non-graphic/non-imageable control character(s) in Unicode are the cause, if
a. control characters are identified and input from the Character Palette such as spacing control characters and joining/non-joining control characters for ligation, or
b. characters are identified from a non-default keyboard whose key codes generate combining character sequences that don't map to a specific writing system in script.
But if so, then assigning a spelling dictionary to the selected character string ought to show a lot of red alerts where the spelling dictionary fails sections of the character string, no?
Another way of working this is to ask the person with the problem to open the Character Palette, insert the cursor in the string of characters, press shift and right arrow once and once only (left arrow once and once only, respectively), press the Advanced icon at lower left, and select Show Character Selected in Application, and see what character is shown. However, this will not work if a combining character sequence is inserted, see previous discussions from time to time since the turn of 2008.
/hh

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