Using multi-word keywords in "Find"

Let's say I have a keyword: "Downtown LA", and another keyword, "Downtown SLC". If I use the Lightroom "Find" option to search for "Downtown LA", it will actually find any images with "Downtown" as part of its keywording, including the "Downtown SLC" images.
I tried wrapping the keyword phrase in quotes to see if that would give me an exact phrase search, but it doesn't work that way apparently. I know I could drop down to the keyword browser, but let's say I'm looking for all images with both the "Downtown LA" keyword, AND the "Family Vacation" keyword. How would I search for such an intersection when the "find" menu locks in on individual words rather than the entire keyword phrase?

>You might want to check out the Keyboard Shortcuts and Search Rules document in the FAQ on this forum. There is a section which contains all the search arguments which allow you to do some pretty fancy stuff, including finding just "Salt Lake City"
I have a copy of that...it doesn't work.
Text: Keywords
Rule: Contains All
Text Field: Black Canyon
What I expect are photos with a keyword containing "black" and "canyon".
What I get are any photo with a keyword or any of its parents containing "black" and a keyword or any of its parents containing "canyon".
So, in addition to photos of Black Canyon Dam and photos taken in Back Canyon I also get photos of Black Birds taken in Canyon County.
This can be "fixed" by changing "Black birds" to "Blackbirds" and surrounding "Black" in the text field with plus signs...this is silly.
The space character is a ligitimate keyword character and ought to be treat as such if it does not appear at the beginning or end of a keyword.
The keyword entry panel uses commas as delimiters. Why are spaces used as delimiters in the Find panel?
How about the same delimiter (a comma) everywhere?
Winston Mitchell
Boise, Idaho

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You may need to adjust your preferences (Interface tab):
When searching for said keywords after entry: not so much - Lr treats spaces as delimiter, not data - not as part of the search term...
I use SpaceUrchin, some people use AnyFilter, for finding metadata with spaces in it.

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As far as I know (and read around), there's no way to search multi-word keywords in the keywords list panel using the "Filter Keywords" box. i.e. If I want to search for the "Great Blue Heron" keyword in a large animal keywords list I have, Lightroom will OR the three words instead of AND'ing them like Aperture does more intuitively. Adding quotes like "Great Blue Heron" doesn't work either. Again this is to filter a large keyword lists through the "Filter Keywords" box in the Keywords List panel.
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as far as I know spaces are also contained and allowed in controlled vocabularies (e.g. for the "official" names of animals 'little panda' for example and plants). I'm using spaces for names very often. As a prof. photographer I need to write captions for all of my images before sending them to my agency with WHEN/WHAT/WHERE/WHO etc. So when shooting persons very often or regular (e.g. politicians or athletes) I started years ago to create keywords and hierarchies for them. So it is much easier and more comfortable to assign them later.
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But it is a .PDF guide that I find easier to navigate and can bookmark.
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