GREP Replace all option bugs in Adobe Indesign

Hi @SathishSekar_ ,

I can confirm the issue as well. German InDesign 2023 version 18.4.0.56 on macOS.

The bug:

With GREP > Change All the formatting of some of the italic text will change to regular.

Note: Style italic is applied with a character style.

What also happens, no bug, expected behavior:

The formatting of the first two characters in the paragraph changes as well.

Due to the bullet point and tab's formatting before removing them with Change to: $2.

Hm. If the issue happens, when formatting changes from the applied character style "Italic" to character style "None", the number of characters that are affected is the number of characters that are behind $1, the first group of your GREP expression. Perhaps this is a hint to the developers what's going wrong.

Report the bug at InDesign UserVoice:

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs

The workaround:

Add a new character style named "REMOVE_ME".

GREP > Find: ^\x{2022}\t

GREP > Change: Format to character style "REMOVE_ME"

Change All

GREP > Find: (?<=^\x{2022}\t).+$

GREP > Change: Format to paragraph style "Main_Txt_Bullets"

Change All

GREP > Find: Format chatacter style "REMOVE_ME"

GREP > Change:

( Leave blank to remove the found text.)

You said: "… please check and suggest that this is Adobe Indesign Application bug or My Indesign document bug?"

This is hard to answer. I tend to see a bug with InDesign itself and not in the document.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

I'm seeing the first two characters change to SymbolT1 because of a Word character style applied to the bullets. Delete it, remove formatting and all is good. I'm not seeing the italics, but perhaps elsewhere you have italics assigned as a Word character style. If so, same fix.

~Barb

I'm not seeing that here on Windows 10 in either Version 16 or 18.

Have you tried trashing preferences and IDMLing way?