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cillan47304961
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September 5, 2018
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Marking text in Indesign

  • September 5, 2018
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When using the hotkey "cmd+a" for marking big amounts of text at the same time, Indesign lock itself up and I have to close the programme and start it all over again. Anyone who have a solution for this problem?

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    Correct answer Laubender

    Hi Cilla,

    were you successful with GREP Find/Replace running on your long story?

    Best,
    Uwe


    FWIW: I did some tests with InDesign CC 2019 version 14.0.1.209 ( that's the bug fix version from InDesign Prerelease ).

    I cannot see any delay after selecting all text in my 300 pages document with one story running through all the pages.

    So I think this bug is fixed.

    However not for CC 2018.1 or any version before down to CC 2015.

    CC 2014, CC version 9.3.0 and CS6 never had that problem.

    All tests done on my German Windows 10 machine.

    Regards,
    Uwe

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    LaubenderCommunity Expert
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    September 5, 2018

    Hi cillan47304961 ,

    I think this is a known bug with InDesign. I see this with my installed versions CC 2015.4, CC 2017.1, CC 2018.1.

    Not with versions CC 2014, CC v9.3 and CS6 before. The bug is not resolved yet.

    How long did you wait until you killed the operation?

    I see a delay of about 4 to 5 seconds with a 200 pages document with one story that flows from page to page. Others reported longer delays up to some minutes depending on the length of the story or the complexity of formatting in the story, especially with fully formatted tables.

    My tests are with InDesign on Windows 10.

    What is your OS? What is your exact version of InDesign?

    Regards,
    Uwe

    cillan47304961
    cillan47304961Author
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    September 5, 2018

    I waited for several minutes without anything happening, and I have tried to not use the hotkey but with the same result. It is really annoying.

    OS 10.13.2 and Indesign 13.1.

    Kind regards,
    Cilla

    cillan47304961
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    September 6, 2018

    cillan47304961  wrote

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    This is ufortunately a bit beyond my knowledge - I only use paragraph styles in Indesign, see picture below, and do not program myself.

    Hi Cilla,

    no fear! You need not to write any "program". Just use the code from my reply 7.

    The steps to do a script file and how you can use it are outlined in the link I posted in reply 6.

    Or do like winterm suggested with find/change with GREP Find/Change.

    What's perhaps missing in his video:

    1. Select one of the text frames of the story you want to change formatting.

    Open the Find/Change Panel.

    From my German InDesign:

    2. Copy paste the expression (?s).+ to the input field Find what: of the GREP tab.

    No input in the Change to: field.

    Next open the options in the Search: field and do Story. Not "Document" and not "All Documents".

    3. With a click to the T symbol of the Change Format: field you define the paragraph style you want to change your text to.

    As a final step do Change All.

    Regards,
    Uwe


    Thank you, I will try this!

    Kind regards,

    Cilla

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