Why? What? Enter < 0016 > or < 0017 > under the searched text to find the table?

Hi @dublove ,

it's easier as you might think.

Select the character that constitutes a table. You'll get that best in the Story Editor Window.

Sample 1, a table with 1 body row: 0016 is shown in the Info panel.

Sample 2, a table with 2 body rows: 0016 0017 is shown.

Sample 3, a table with 3 body rows: 0016 0017 0017 is shown.

Now try this with a couple of tables in your document. Text Find pattern:

<0016><0017><0017>

Result: You will not find tables with 1 or 2 body rows.

But you will find tables with 3 and more body rows.

So technically spoken, I'm speculating here a bit, you'll find the first three body rows of every table in the document.

Another note on the number of rows you can detect with a combination of <0016> and <0017> with Text Find: Header rows do not count, footer rows do not count!

That means:

<0016><0017>

will also find this table where we see 1 header row, 1 footer row and 2 body rows:

And of course, with that pattern you will find tables with more than 2 body rows as well, regardless of the number of body rows and footer rows.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )