Can I create contractions throughout a document? (e.g., It is --> It's)

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September 4, 2014
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My company recently updated it's style guidelines. Previously, we couldn't use contractions, but now we are. So when I update our documents, I have to go through and change "It is" to "It's", "you are" to you're" and "We are" to "We're", etc, etc.

Is there a script to make this easier? It is really tedious right now.

I've been using find/replace which helps somewhat. But is it possible to script something that would make it even easier?

Scripting

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Jongware

Community Expert

Use the FindChangeByList script from the Sample Scripts folder. Its (not "it's") syntax is described in the sample txt document. Make sure you are using tabs to separate the items, though, as a common mistake is to use regular spaces.

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wayne.westAuthor

Participant

OH thank you! I think this is exactly what I need.

However, I get an error -2741 when I run the script. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Here's what I created (simple one line for now):

text

{find what:”You are”}

{change to:”You’re”}

{include footnotes:true, include master pages:true, include hidden layers:true, whole word:false}

Find all You are and replace with You’re.

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wayne.westAuthor

Participant

Ah! I found the error! My text editor wants to replace the dumb quotes with smart quotes. When I disable that in preferences, and use dumb quotes, then the script works like a charm!

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