@Esmee-Lohgynn said in Find & Replace, except the one selected:
I didn’t realize I had “match case” and “match whole word” selected
Match case wouldn’t matter here. Match whole word only would matter; from the user manual:
If the left and right characters of your search string are both non-word characters (so not letters, numbers, underscore, and optionally additional characters set by your preferences), then the text to the left and right of your match must be word characters, spaces, and/or beginning or ending of the line.
So, even though the OP was very light on detail, this behavior was what he was a victim of.
Note also that the OP’s problem would have been solved MUCH quicker if he had provided sufficient level of detail, not just complaining that it doesn’t work and that “I have literally been doing this for years, I don’t need instructions on how to do it.”