How to Use GREP to Add Double Quotes at the Start and End of a Paragraph in InDesign

Question

Hi! I’m hoping someone can help with a simple GREP to add double quotes to the start and end of a paragraph please so I can incorporate it into a style? (ie shift 2). Thanks!

Peter Spier · Accepted Answer

This Grep should work to enclose a whole paragraph in Quotes:

Find ^.+$

change ~{$0~}

and If you need to limit it to specific paragraphs they need to have a unique style you can specify or you’ll have to select them...

Peter Spier · Answer

If you mean to create a GREP style that will add quote characters to a paragraph where they are missing, you can’t do that. Grep Styles can only format existing text. To add missing characters you would need to use Find/Change, and you might want to script this if the intent is to add the quotes to all paragraphs that have a particular style assigned.

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