Search / Find problem with Mac Notes

The 'command f' function is greyed out on my new version of 'Mac Notes' that comes with Lion. As per the image below. why can't i use that 'Find' function?
There is another search function in Notes
but this just does a broad brush search to see if any of my notes contain a word and identifes the title of the notes but it doesn't identify where the words are within the note. i have some notes with thousands of words so this isn't very helpful.
does anyone know how i can use the traditional 'Find' function in Notes? or perhaps some free software that i can use instead of notes?
why they changed it i don't know? i've been using mac for 13 years and some things are just getting less useful and intuitive. 
Thanks
Shane

I agree.   Still no resolution to this problem and the integration of icloud makes looking at alternatives less appealing. 

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