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Applying style to text between double tabs in InDesign using GREP

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June 12, 2023
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Hi!

I have a document with a very loooong list of titles followed by authors, and I am looking for a fast way to apply a certain character style to all Author names, which are currently in between double tabs (which I then plan to remove through find/replace). Any useful script to do this would be extremely helpful!

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Marina

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Correct answer Eugene Tyson

Use Nested Styles instead.

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/drop-caps-nested-styles.html#:~:text=nested%20styles.)-,Create%20nested%20styles,-You%20can%20specify

You can choose

'none' 'through' to 2 Tabs

'<char style>' 'up to' 2 Tabs

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Use Nested Styles instead.

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/drop-caps-nested-styles.html#:~:text=nested%20styles.)-,Create%20nested%20styles,-You%20can%20specify

You can choose

'none' 'through' to 2 Tabs

'<char style>' 'up to' 2 Tabs

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Hi,

You could try using Find and Replace with GREP like so:

(\t\t)(.*?)(\t\t)

Then select Change Format and Change all

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I think it might be better to use (?<=\t\t).+?(?!\t\t) so the character style is applied only to the text between the tabs, not to the tabs as well.