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Rajesh300118088dvx
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July 20, 2023
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Need help with GREP

  • July 20, 2023
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Hi All,

I had a issue while using GREP, While replacing the manual bulleted paragraph to bullet styled paragraph,

I have used the below:

Find What:

^ ·\t(.+)$

Change to:

$1

Change Format: 

Main_Txt_Bullets (paragraph style)

When I replace by option "change" one by one all the instances change clearly

While using "change All" option, the initial letter of roman word followed by italic word changes to italics.

Kindly help me to rectify & suggest me what went wrong?

Screenshots below steps:

 

 

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Eugene Tyson
Community Expert
July 23, 2023

I think there's a oddity with this that I've noticed before, it's somehow capturing the italic style

You don't need all this

^ ·\t(.+)$

 

You just need

^ ·\t

 

 

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Rajesh300118088dvxAuthor
Participating Frequently
July 23, 2023

Hi Tyson,

I planned to do both style replace & remove the "manual bullet with tab" at once, that's the reason, to used the expression.

If, I proceed change one by one it replaces clearly, It happens when i used change all option only.

 

Rajesh George  

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Eugene Tyson
Community Expert
July 23, 2023

I don't know 

Would need to see the file.

 

To remove the bullets - remove the formatting info in the panel 

Then run the find replace again

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My guess is that perhaps the Bullet character in the bullet style perhaps has italic setting

And this is passing on the italic to the first character.

 

Which it shouldn't.

 

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Manan Joshi
Community Expert
July 21, 2023

Can you share a sample InDesign document to test with

-Manan

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Rajesh300118088dvxAuthor
Participating Frequently
July 23, 2023

Hi Manan,

Extremely Sorry for the late response!

Find the idml file attached.

RajeshGeorge

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Manan Joshi
Community Expert
July 23, 2023

There is no file attached

-Manan

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