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Override One GREP Style Instance

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September 12, 2019
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Hello, is there a way to cancel one instance of an active GREP style?

For example, I have a GREP style to italicize our company name every time it appears, but in one instance, we do not want it italicized. Is there a way to manually override that one instance while keeping the other instances live?

Thanks!

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Correct answer SJRiegel

Create a new paragraph style that does not contain the GREP style, and apply it to the paragraph containing that one instance.

winterm

Legend

There's a simpler way, imo.

Strictly speaking, you can’t disable GREP for just one instance, but you can do this for a paragraph, without creating yet another style.
Put your text cursor in a paragraph which contains your word(s), go to ‘hamburger’ menu at the very right corner of Control panel (right after Quick Apply), select GREP Styles…, delete or disable the query you don’t want to be applied to that paragraph. Done.
Note: plus sign appears next to your para style name, showing there is an override.

jctremblay

Community Expert

Disabling GREP Style locally won’t help you if you have two instance, one that you want it Italics and one not. 🙂

Jongware

Community Expert

At the end, was that .. a smiley? It's gruesome. A square head with crooked teeth.

jctremblay

Community Expert

In your GREP style query, you could add a Negative LookBehind for a Non-joiner characters and manually enter the non-joiner before the italics text in the paragraph when you want to disengage it.

(?<!~j)yourgrepquery

cathiep81049532Author

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Thanks Jean! I see what you're saying but can you elaborate a little more. Would adding the non-joiner remove the italics on that word?

jctremblay

Community Expert

Yes. Since you will be asking to make it Italic *only* when there is no Non-joiner before. I have add a picture on my original reply. You can see one my name is not italic because the non-joiner are present before.

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SJRiegelCorrect answer

Legend

Create a new paragraph style that does not contain the GREP style, and apply it to the paragraph containing that one instance.

John Mensinger

Community Expert

There could be other ways, but one way I've applied such an exception is to make a copy of the Paragraph style, delete the GREP style from it, and apply it to just that one paragraph.

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