How do I 'Find & Replace' with control characters - paragraph, carriage return, tab

In Pages 4.3 (Pages '09) I could insert special characters into the Find & Replace fields. It was great. Excellent way to clean up & recover text from a pdf or html.
In Pages 5.2 that capability seems to be gone. When I turn on the special characters [Show Invisibles - shift-cmd-I], I can highlight said invisible, copy it, then paste it into the Find&Replace field. Nope. It goes in as a space, and the Find command only finds spaces. Not the invisible that I was looking for.
This was a major feature for me, folks. Much better than Word's approach. Now it is gone (I fear), and the Find & Replace is worse than Word's.
How can I recover/attain this feature?

I have struggled to find this "feature" for a while.
It CANNOT be that Apple stripped out a core capability of even a basic text editor.
Apple, a reply here because this is a F%$#$%^ joke if true.

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