Help w/grep

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September 7, 2025
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Hi friends!

I need to format, within a par style ANY TEXT STRING that has before it - colon and space, and after it a period. So this would be -

Yesterday it was: very hot outside. And we stayed inside

So the words "very hot outside." (Including the period but to the colon) get formatted with their own char style.

Little by little I will hopefully understand how to do this ...

Thanks

SF

Correct answer Manan Joshi

Yes that makes sense. If the operation that you want to do is apply style on the found string then grep style would work fine.

-Manan

M

Manan Joshi

Community Expert

Use the following grep in find what

(?<=:) [^.\r]+\.

And in the change format select the character style you want to apply

-Manan

SuzzyFlamingoAuthor

Inspiring

Thank you for your attention and reply!

Excuse my ignorance, but can I use this as a nested grep style within a paragraph style to automatically format that string? I mean it is all over my paragraphs, and i would like it to happen in real time.?

edit:

I tried and it worked. So I guess we now know that any grep working in find will also work in a grepped style, right?

M

Manan Joshi

Correct answer

Community Expert

Yes that makes sense. If the operation that you want to do is apply style on the found string then grep style would work fine.

-Manan

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