Automate find and replace

[rontiara]

I suppose this is a coding question, but I don't know how to code.

I have an InDesign document that has a hard return at the end of every line, and two hard returns between paragraphs.

I need to change those end-of-line returns to spaces, but leave the two returns between paragraphs alone.

I'm getting carpal tunnel trying to do it paragraph-by-paragraph, as this is a full-length book!

Can anyone help?

Thanks!

[Jump_Over · Accepted solution]

Hi,

This not a coding question.

Run "Find...Change Text" utility 3 times:

1. Find: "^p^p"     Change: (i.e.) "@@@"

2. Find: "^p"     Change: " "

3. Find: "@@@"     Change: "^p"

Jarek

[Kai Rübsamen]

Or with GREP:

Find what: (?<!~b)~b(?!~b)

Change to: one space

Realize that with Jareks and my version, there could be 2 spaces, since there could be a space before the return at the end of the line.

So I would recommend a step 4 (Jareks example) or a step 2 (the grep version)

Find what: \x20{2,}

Change to: nothing

Kai

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Just be careful!

(^/)

[Kai Rübsamen]

It seems, that (?<!~b)~b doesn’t work in InDesign.

Jean-Claude find out, that e.g. (?<!e)e won’t work too.

bug or logical??

So my idea for the above task is:

Find what: (?<=\S)\x20*\r(?!\s)

Change to: one space