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philking
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October 20, 2020
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Find and replace color fill in table cells

  • October 20, 2020
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I have several table cells that use a tint of a color. I made a new color swatch that is similar to the tint and I would like to find all of the cells with the tinted color and replace them with 100% of the new color.

 

Is this possible?

 

Thanks,

Phil

 

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    Correct answer Laubender

    Hi Phil,

    in the new feature Find/Change Color I see at least one option missing that is available with GREP or Text:

    Search: [ Selection ]

    Only [ Document ] or [ All Documents ] seems to be available.

    So you may need a strategy to minimize your Search targets to tables only.

    See no way right now other than scripting.

     

    Regards,
    Uwe Laubender

    ( ACP )

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    LaubenderCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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    October 21, 2020

    Hi Phil,

    in the new feature Find/Change Color I see at least one option missing that is available with GREP or Text:

    Search: [ Selection ]

    Only [ Document ] or [ All Documents ] seems to be available.

    So you may need a strategy to minimize your Search targets to tables only.

    See no way right now other than scripting.

     

    Regards,
    Uwe Laubender

    ( ACP )

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      LaubenderCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      October 20, 2020

      Hi Phil,

      you may find an answer in the next version of InDesign 2021 16.0 that is about to be launched:

       

      InDesign 16.0 is now available for download!
      Sheena Kaul, Adobe Employee , 7 hours ago
      https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/indesign-16-0-is-now-available-for-download/td-p/11521521?page=1

       

      Find and change colors

      https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/user-guide.html/indesign/using/find-change.ug.html#locate-colors

       

      Regards,
      Uwe Laubender

      ( ACP )

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        philkingAuthor
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        October 20, 2020

        That will be helpful if it works as advertised. 🙂

        Thanks,

        Phil

         

        pixxxelschubser
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        pixxxelschubserCommunity Expert
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        October 20, 2020

        Do you use cells and table formats?

        Can you show something, please?

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        philkingAuthor
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        October 20, 2020

        I did not use cell styles. The brown and grey in the top header bar were manually done.

        The gray is 52/37/38/4 at a 50% tint. I want to change that to 0/0/0/27 at 100% tint.

        Both of the CMYK colors are named swatches.

         

        There are a hundred different tables across the 176 page document with this styling.

         

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