Search stopped working

Hi!
I have Adobe Reader XI (v.11.0.10), on Windows 7 64-bit. Until yesterday it worked fine, but now search (Ctrl-F) doesn't work any more. It doesn't find words which I know are in that document, and of course the document IS searchable - I can copy text from it, and I am sure I have used search in the same document before.
I HAVE tried "Repair Adobe Reader" in the Help-menu, which even restarted Windows, but that didn't help either.
So what is suddenly wrong?
Best regards,
Henrik R.
Addition:
I just discovered that search DOES work in another PDF-document! And when I try searching in the problem-document with Nuance PDF Reader 6.0 it doesn't work either! Strange.
Meddelelse blev redigeret af: Henrik Rosenø

Hi!
This is what I see in Notepad... so I can see something is wrong with that document(!!) :
" ABSTRACT A re view of the re search lit erature concerning the
environmen tal consequences of increased levels of atmo spheric
carbon di oxide leads to the con clusion that in creases dur ing the
20th and early 21st cen turies have produced no del eterious ef -
fects upon Earth’s weather and cli mate. "

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