A very basic find and replace question

[Chris22040923b75s]

Hi, I have always wanted to do the following:

Find all text with a certain format and then add a special character in front of all instances of the formatted text.

For example:

Find format: Times New Roman + Regular + size: 22 pt + color: C=0 M=100 Y=0 K=0

and then I want to add an asterisk in front of occurrence of this format in my document.

Can this be done with GREP?

[FRIdNGE · Accepted solution]

Basically:

Find: .+

Replace by: *$0

(^/)  The Jedi

[Chris22040923b75s]

Thank you! this did work.

[Barb Binder]

Hi @Chris22040923b75s:

Note you need to enable GREP tab at the top of the dialog box. This won't work if you leave the default Text tab selected. 

~Barb

[Chris22040923b75s]

Yes, that's correct. excuse my poor screenshot etiquette. I did switch the tab when I tried "the Jedi's" method.

[Robert Tkaczyk]

@FRIdNGE is perfectly right 😉 BUT @Chris22040923b75s, you need to tell us more about the text you are looking for - only in front of a paragraph or every word or phrase ?

[Chris22040923b75s]

in front of a paragraph. But I could see putting it in front of a phrase being very useful as well.

[Robert Tkaczyk]

Then @FRIdNGE's solution should work perfectly fine.

[pixxxelschubser]

@Chris22040923b75s 

Why not just activate the bullet and numbering function in your paragraph style sheet with the asterisk as a bullet?

[Chris22040923b75s]

Well, I just used an asterisk as a stand-in for any string of text I might want to do in the future.