Find searches collapsed areas but does not re-collapse if nothing found.

[DP_3059536]

I am using Mathcad Prime Release 9.0 and Datecode9.0.0.0

When searching for text or math in a document using the Find box and Find Next button in the status bar, collapsed areas are expanded but do not re-collapse if nothing is found. For documents with many collapsed areas this is difficult to manually re-collapse each one.
1) Is there a simple way to collapse all expanded areas in a mathcad document?
2) Can the find algorithm be updated to re-collapse any collapsed areas where nothing is found?
My current workaround is to lock all collapsed areas, but this is not ideal either.
Note: Mathcad Prime 8.0 did not have this issue, since find did not search any collapsed areas.

[LucMeekes]

Every improvement is (involves) a change, but not every change is an improvement.

In this case, Prime 9 was changed with respect to Prime 8, most probably due to this idea: https://community.ptc.com/t5/Mathcad-Ideas/Collapsed-Area-Finds/idi-p/760767 .

A couple of things went wrong:

1. The change is not advertised in the "Whats_new.pdf" file for Prime 9.

2. The search functionality was changed to a bad implementation.

I guess someone changed the program but only got half way.

Seems like PTC.

Success!
Luc

[MichaelW · Accepted solution]

Please note that PTC Technical Support created an article to collect experiences and expectations about Mathcad Prime's worksheet range search (Find) feature:

CS401416 Search/Find in worksheet functionality is less comfortable in Mathcad Prime

Where issue was reported to R&D on 18-SEP-2023 as SPR 14861215 with severity High

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