ON MAC OS, Adobe Reader unable to search a document for words

Hi,
I am using Adobe Reader on a Mac Os platform. All my software is up to date, including OS and Adobe Reader.
My issue is that when I try searching a particular document for a word, it may return one result, if any, although there are clearly more results in the document. I also tried this same operation on a windows os, windows 7 most updated os. The search returned all results that were there..
This must be a mac thing, I am wondering what fix there is for this?
If this helps, when I copy and past the highlighted text to msword, it comes back in wing dings or some symbols...although its clear it is readible text in the document....able to annotate andhighlight it..etc.
Thank you!

I have a similar problem, but it has only occurred since my Adobe Reader was updated a few days ago.
Until then, the 'search' function (command-shift-F) would operate beautifully.
Since the update (to version 9.4.0, on Mac OS-X 10.6) the 'search' menu does not even show, regardless of whether I use the shortcut or the menu from the top. 'Find' still seems to work, but it is prety useless when there ae multiple occurrences of a word or phrase within a document.
If this canot be resilved, I would much rather go back to the old version - how do I do this?

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