GREP in a Table row

Hi @simon cederholm,

I can't see how GREP style can make the number before the 'S' red, as they are separate paragraphs in different cells.

Can you do a GREP Find/Change and apply a character style to the number and 'S' that makes them red before converting it to tables?

Another way is to use a script to make the contents of the cell red if the next cell contains a letter 'S'.

Hi @simon cederholm ,

can you show a screenshot of the GREP Style you are currently using with the paragraph style that is applied to the table's text? What is "the rest"? What are the key characters you want to color? And please show at least some rows of your table with hidden characters showing; also frame edges so that we can see clearly a table cell's boundaries.

Note: You need one character style for each color you want to apply.

And also one GREP Style per used character style and color.

GREP Style pattern for the first character "s" in a given table cell:

^s

Better*, if you only like to do this with sunday, to do a positive look ahead with the rest of the word:

^s(?=unday)

For monday it will go like that:

^m(?=onday)

[*] Of course to make this work the whole word must be present as the first word in the table cell.

Also note, that a GREP Style cannot work beyond a given paragraph. It cannot pick up the contents of an adjacent text cell and react upon it.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )