Search on fixed date field value?

[JimB_oo]

I have a document with many fixed date fields (menu Insert/Fields/Date, and/or AutoText from such a field, many with modified format), and other text as well. So I see a date field, "10/18/2012" in my document, and try to search for "10/18/2012", and it says "Search key not found."

So how do I find that date field? Even an OO-basic solution would be ok.

I can copy the whole document to NotePad++ and then find it that way, but that's not acceptable.

[acknak]

Interesting. It does look like the contents of fields is excluded from Find & Replace. Too bad. I don't see any workaround for it, short of some kind of macro code.

[Hagar Delest]

I noticed that too. Most disturbing with cross-references (text) for example.
Haven't had any time to file a bug report yet.

[didode]

Has anyone found a way to do this?

[RoryOF]

I think AltSearch extension will do this.
AltSearch

See the "Extended" button on it.

[didode]

Thanks! I definitely like that it has regular expressions. But it is not clear to me how to search for the fixed date field value.