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GREP to remove runts in a contact listing within a paragraph

EmOlivette
Explorer ,
Jul 28, 2021 Jul 28, 2021

In my job, we create basically a phone book. Each entry is a paragraph, but each field of data is separated by a forced line break. If a company name is too long in the column, it will create a runt/cliff withing the boundary of the beginning of the paragraph to the end of the field of data (the forced line break). Is there a GREP I can run to identify when these happen? Note that I want to identify these, NOT do a change all. 

 

In theory what I want is to search for a single word on a line that has a forced line break at the end, but has no "beginning" other than it being on a second line. 

 

Does that make sense?

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FRIdNGE
Guide , Jul 30, 2021 Jul 30, 2021

Just For Fun!

 

(^/)  The Jedi

 

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/*
    _FRIdNGE-0728_LineRunt.jsx
    by FRIdNGE, Michel Allio [30/07/2021]
*/

var myDoc = app.activeDocument;

var myCondition = myDoc.conditions.item("runt");
if (!myCondition.isValid) myCondition = myDoc.conditions.add ({name: "runt", indicatorMethod: ConditionIndicatorMethod.USE_HIGHLIGHT, indicatorColor: [255,186,131]});

var myStories = myDoc.stories,
S = myStories.length,  s;
for ( s = 0; s < S ; s++ ) {
    var myParas = myStories[s].paragraphs,
    P = myP
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EmOlivette
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Jul 30, 2021 Jul 30, 2021
In Response To FRIdNGE

Perfect! This is the best iteration that I needed! You're going to make my job so much easier. Thank you thank you thank you!

 

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Joel Cherney Community Expert
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Jul 30, 2021 Jul 30, 2021
In Response To FRIdNGE

Aw heck! I was getting so close! Thanks for the tutorial on how to use conditions and indicators, I suppose. 🙂

 

 

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