Convert grep styles somthing more static

Question

Is there a way to have all grep-styles that have been applied by paragraph styles, converted to manually applied styling?

This is simply to aid in text exporting, as grep styles don't appear to be honoured in any kind of copy/paste, or otherwise automated export to rich text.

Example: copy some text which has been styled by GREP to contain italics, paste into Mac Text Edit, the styles are gone. Any text in the source text that was manually styled transfers correctly.

My aim would be to make these changes, carry out my text exports, then close the file without saving (I don't need to keep the converted styles).

FRIdNGE · Accepted Answer

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https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/grep-removed-and-applied-character-style/m-p/7099474#M290942

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James Gifford—NitroPress · Answer

I would have bet against this working, but darn if it doesn't. The problem with GREP and line styles and such is that they are completely dynamic, applying only within the context of the live document. If you look, bolded words don't actually show any character style applied. So I thought any kind of Find/Replace would be fruitless...

But, in a simple test using a GREP style to apply a BOLD character style to designated text... I find the bolded words, as expected, show no style override when selected. But they DO come up as hits for either the character style or the bolding. And a Find/Replace handled them just fine, leaving the directly-applied BOLD even after the GREP style was deleted.

So one method would be to search for the GREP-applied style, substitute a directly applied style, and the text should then cut/paste/export with the style as a native part of the flow and not a phantom, active-only effect. Tedious, but there you go.

Does that make sense?

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