Search for exact phrase

(Adobe Reader XI, version 11.0.06, Windows 7 Professional SP1, 32-bit)
I'm reviewing a PDF document that has various occurrences of mixed case "plug-in", "plug in", and "plugin", sometimes the 'p' and/or 'i' is capital. I cannot find a way to make Reader XI search for and match ONLY the following 7 characters:
plug in
That's p-l-u-g-space-i-n. When performing a case-insensitive search for <plug in> (I'm using < and > as delimiters just for the rest of this message posting, can't use quotes as you'll see shortly) it matches <plug in>, of course, but it also matches <plug-in>. I don't want all those <plug-in> matches because a hyphen is not a space. (There are LOTS of matches on <plug-in> and they bury the few matches of <plug in>. So I gotta search this big list to find the few correct matches...and then wonder if I missed any.)
In the advanced search option it says to use quotes to make Reader search for an exact phrase or words. Well, when using quotes in the search box they are not delimiters of an exact phrase, they are part of the search. For example, as a sanity check I did a search on the eight characters quotation-p-l-u-g-i-n-quotation <"plugin">. That should match all occurrences of <plugin> because I enclosed it in quotation marks, right? The search for <"plugin"> produces one match - the single instance of <"Plugin"> in the entire document...so the quotes are part of the search, they don't delimit an exact phrase.
I'm sure the error is on my part, I just don't know what I'm missing here. Please help if you can.
thanks,
Steve T.

Thanks for the quick response, Gilad D. I tried those options before posting this question, and again about 5 minutes ago just to be sure. I tried them both together and both separately, but no joy - searching for <plug in> still matched both <plug in> and <plug-in>.

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