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Deleting text from multiple textfields in one action or key combination.

Explorer ,
Feb 01, 2019 Feb 01, 2019

It would be nice if InDesign could provide us with a key combination to delete text from multiple textfield in one single action. Now you have to select the text from each single textfield to delete its content.

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Community Expert , Feb 02, 2019 Feb 02, 2019

Hi Jos,

if all the "cells" are text frames of their own, you could remove all ther contents this way:

1. Select all text frames

Note: The following will not work with a group.

Ungroup if you selected a group of text frames.

Or select all members of the group inside the group if all the members of that group are text frames.

2. Do a GREP Find/Replace action

Find pattern ( derived from winterm 's find pattern in reply #6 😞

\A.+\Z

Replace: Nothing

Do that on: Stories.

FWIW: winterm already gave you some good

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Community Expert ,
Feb 01, 2019 Feb 01, 2019

It sounds like you're working with PDF forms.

Most people who work on forms, need to fine tune, finish, and distribute their forms using Acrobat Pro. You would be using the Prepare Form tool. There is a command in that tool to Clear All which clears all the fields of data.

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Mentor ,
Feb 01, 2019 Feb 01, 2019

Staying in InDesign, it still may be possible using standard Find/Change capabilities, but we need to know more about your actual situation. Is there any other text in your document, or only text fields to be cleared? All text fields should be cleared, or just certain ones? How could you tell formally one from another: by applied style, manual text formatting, content?

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