No hotkeys and not specifying whole words.

First search on startupof InDesign: Grep, cut and paste in the word 'with' which is in the document many times. It finds the first one and I can step through the document with Find Next. In testing, I never replaced.

Then, in the text tab, the same word. It finds the first one and I can step though the doc using Find Next. Again, no replace.

Back to Grep, the same search, the same way as the first time and .. boom .. no match found.

Not searching for or replacing with any formatting in all cases.

I'm  stumped

Ok, here's exactly what I need to do. A string that looks like this:

“with 209 words in option trims”

Want to be able to replace so it reads: 209 wds. All the other words go away.

The only thing that varies is the numeral… and I have no trouble finding it with Grep. But when I try to add the explicit words .. and I tried just typing them, I get a nothing found.

Ok, here's exactly what I need to do. A string that looks like this:

“with 209 words in option trims”

Want to be able to replace so it reads: 209 wds. All the other words go away.

The only thing that varies is the numeral… and I have no trouble finding it with Grep. But when I try to add the explicit words .. and I tried just typing them, I get a nothing found.