Find/Change Not Finding Manual Bullets from Word File

Question

I'm using InDesign CC 2019. release 14.0.

I have text imported from MS Word that includes a bulleted list. When importing I chose to remove styles and formatting from text and tables.

I tried to use Find/Change to remove the bullet and tab character left over from the Word text and replace it with the Bulleted List paragraph style that was already created in the InDesign document. Find/Change did not remove the Word bullet and tab but it did apply the Bulleted List paragraph style. That resulted in two sets of bullets: one set from MS Word and one from the InDesign paragraph style.

If I use Find/Change to remove the bullet and tab left over from Word and do not apply the InDesign Bulleted List paragraph style in the Find/Change dialog, InDesign removes the Word bullet and tab. Then I need to do a second step of applying the InDesign Bulleted List paragraph style.

Is this a bug in release 14.0 that I can't remove bullet tab and apply a paragraph style using Find/Change?

FRIdNGE · Accepted Answer

E.g. Bullet • followed by one or more spaces (could be a tab):Find: ^•\h*(\H)Replace by: $1Replace by format: "NewBullet" para style

barbara_a7746676 · Answer

This is one of the "lovable" quirks of InDesign. It won't remove the manually typed characters and apply a paragraph style at the same time. You'll need to run Find/Change twice. Once to apply the paragraph style and a second time to remove the extra bullet tab characters that were manually typed.

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