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The slash doesn't :D Backslashes do, but the forward slash seems to be one of the handful non-alphanumerics that doesn't do anything. As far as I can tell, none of the characters in your sample need escaping.

As with your “200 words” thingy, some of the spaces may have been entered as hard (non-breaking) spaces. Select “Show invisible characters” and check for these.

You can also copy one of the lines and paste it into the Find what field of GREP — ID will convert any special characters to its GREP notation. It will not help if sometimes one space is entered as a hard space and on another occasion another space is, though.

You can always change every single space in the string to , which is a catch-all for “any sort of space at all”.