A GREP command to find bullet paragraph styles that come before body paragraph styles

[juliem88830734]

Like the title says, I am looking for a GREP command that would allow me to find and replace bullet styles that come right before my body styles. 

Ideally I would be able to find all bullets that come right before body text and replace them with a style that has more spacing after it. This is so I can have a little extra space between bullets and Body – while keeping normal spacing between different tiers of bullets. (Using the "space between same style" creates awkward spacing between bullets of different tiers.)

I hope this makes sense!  - and if this does not exist, it would be a great feature to add. That, or an option within paragraph styles that allows for the styles to behave differently when followed by another, specific, style. 

Thanks!

[FRIdNGE]

Just a question: are there footnotes in your doc?

(^/)  The Jedi

[juliem88830734]

Nope! But there are endnotes. 

[FRIdNGE]

Other Question: are there "sub-bullets" paras with a "sub-bullet" para style applied?

You could take a look:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/grep-find-paragraph-after-a-specific-paragraph-s...

(^/)

[juliem88830734]

I do! Unfortunately the papers I work with can be quite technical/complicated, and there are many different styles of bullets.

For example we have 4 tiers of Body Bullets:
Body Bullet_1
Body Bullet_2
Body Bullet_3
Body Bullet_4 

What I need, is for the spacing between each tier of bullet to remain the same but, after the last bullet (no matter which tier), before the Body paragraph stye, for there to be extra spacing.
So, for example; 
First through second-to-last bullets – Spacing after = 0.08
Last bullet – Spacing after = 0.15

Ideally, what I would LOVE would be for Adobe to have a setting, within paragraph styles, where I could select "Set spacing to X-amount when followed by Y-paragraph style"... but where that doesn't work, I was hoping for the ability to "Find Bullet_X when followed by Body" so I could do a Find-and-Replace for Bullet_X and a Bullet_X With Extra Space style.

Sorry for the long, complicated description! Haha, I hope that makes sense.

[Peter Kahrel]

You can set the internal spacing, so to speak, of a block of similar paragraphs. So if you have a paragraph style X, you set the space before and/or after, and the internal spacing to 0. It's the option highlighted in the screenshot.

If that doesn't work for you, and you need something more like conditional styling, then you should look at this plug-in: https://creativepro.com/conditional-styling-rules-for-indesign/