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Explorer ,
Nov 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016

I need to find all type within parenthesis and the parenthesis in a long document and make it all italic. I feel like this is a GREP search but I can't seem to get it right. Can anyone help?

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Community Expert , Nov 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016

Find What:

(?<=\().+?(?=\))

Change to:

Apply an Italic character style

http://trainingonsite.com/images/downloads/indesign_cc_2015_grep_codes.pdf

This does not include the parentheses.

Notice the second page of examples.

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Community Expert ,
Nov 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016

Find What:

(?<=\().+?(?=\))

Change to:

Apply an Italic character style

http://trainingonsite.com/images/downloads/indesign_cc_2015_grep_codes.pdf

This does not include the parentheses.

Notice the second page of examples.

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Community Expert ,
Nov 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016

If you want to include the parentheses, you might try:

Find What:

\(.+?\)

Change to:

Apply an Italic character style

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LEGEND ,
Nov 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016
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Not so simple in this kind of case!

"Quiamet dus duntur (conseque (qui tet es) perferis) eost, offic torem faceatus! …"

(^/) 

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