GREP formula help

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March 28, 2023
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Hello all

I want to apply a Character Style to a Paragraph Style via GREP which applies said Character Style up to an Indent to Here, but struggling to make it work

Can anyone help me with this query please

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Correct answer Robert at ID-Tasker

Why GREP? why not just Nested Styles?

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Personally, I use an en space between my note number and contents so that's how I handle it.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Exactly, as per @Robert at ID-Tasker. We need GREP for pattern matching. A nested style does exactly what you are asking for.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

MattheausGAuthor

Known Participant

Yes, I have it set up on a Nested Style presently

I guess that will do.

To give a full explanation, it is to style up footnotes and what I really want to happen is the cavaet symbols, such as an asterisk, dagger, double asterisk etc appear in a different font size and baseline shift to the other copy in that paragraph
So it could be achieved with a positive look behind from the first 'space' character and ideally I only want the characters to switch to the Character Style and not the tab characters which flank it / attached screenshot. Maybe I am overthinking it...

Robert at ID-Tasker

Legend

Yes, you are 😉

As you need to ONLY style first one / few characters - up to a specific character - there is no need to bring big guns 😉 GREP will slow down your InDesign significantly.