Friday, July 27, 2012

Re: [Avid-L2] Time to fix the "Find" function!

 

beside that, there are multiple apostrophes (well, they are different but
look alike, and have of course different char codes.
I highly suspect the problem to lie there.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger" <rogershuff@yahoo.co.uk>
To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Time to fix the "Find" function!

> Of course we old apostrophe pedants would argue that either that
> apostrophe is in the wrong place or shouldn't be there at all! Avid is
> throwing a hissy fit and trying to educate you!
>
> On 27 Jul 2012, at 01:27, Shirley Gutierrez wrote:
>
>> I'm I just cursed, or is anyone else finding that sometime the Find
>> window simply refuses to search on certain terms when searching scripts?
>> This one is "20's" as in "I was in my 20's when it happened." I've tried
>> deselecting "whole words only" but no dice. I can search on "20," but
>> that brings up every TC number in the script that contains that term. I
>> have the raw transcript, and I can search on "20's" just fine in the
>> context of MS Word - is it possible Word does something better than Avid?
>>
>> I understand the search capabilities in version 6 products are much more
>> robust than in previous products; I just sometimes wish the search window
>> were less of a diva. I've had weird problems with timeline text searches
>> as well, and I'm starting to lose confidence that a negative search
>> result really means anything.
>>
>> Thanks! Rant over.
>>
>> Shirley
>>
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>>
>>
>
> With best wishes,
> Roger Shufflebottom
> +44 7973 543 660
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