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How to find duplicate paragraphs?

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March 11, 2021
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For example, identical text in footnotes need to be styled as Ibid.

In this case, they are consecutive.*
How to get them? Thanks

BVC. Annual Report. December /1916

* Also, it is possible to find them in diffent locations?

How to

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Correct answer FRIdNGE

Adding a carriage-return at the end of the last para (if not):

Find: ^(.+\r)\1+

Replace by: $1

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… Or, without taking in account a "last" carriage-return:

Find: ^((.+)\r)\1*\2

Replace by: $2

[surely very tired for writing such a grep code! Time to go to sleep! =D ]

(^/)

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Eugene Tyson

Adobe Expert

^(.+\r)\1

That should do it.

But - I am having mixed results, for example on the ME version on the Mac it finds differently.

On the English version on my PC it finds differently.

How odd?

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CamiloUAuthor

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No, it doesn'work. It stops after the first finding.
Thanks.

FRIdNGE

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Adding a carriage-return at the end of the last para (if not):

Find: ^(.+\r)\1+

Replace by: $1

(^/) The Jedi

Steve Werner

Adobe Expert

Perhaps I'm not understanding, but you can do it with Edit > Find/Change as shown below. I set "Ibid" to italic by using the Change Format category. The ^p metacharacter stands for End of Paragraph and can be chosen from the @ menu.

Steve Werner

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To answer your other question, the instances do not have to be consecutive.

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Steve

Why italics for Ibid.?

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