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Missing spaces between period and text in inDesign

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February 7, 2017
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Hi,

I have a long text to work on inDesign and I noticed that sometimes the space is missing between the full stop/period and the first word of the next sentence. What should I write in the GREP tool in the entering field "Find what"?

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Correct answer vinny38

\.\w

Should do the basic search.

But I'm sure GREP enthusiasts will come up with a more elegant solution.

I'm thinking about excluding emails or URL of the query, i.e.

Obi-wan Kenobi

Brainiac

Just for comment! Not global but really less risky!

(^/)

Sandee Cohen

Brainiac

Does this ever happen with question marks or exclamation marks? If so there should be a way to do it for those too. I just don't know it myself.

winterm

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I guess, vinny and I just wanted to leave some space for OP's creative mind

Well, this one will insert a space after any punctuation and any character (with Change to field revealed):

Find what: ([[:punct:]])(\w)

Change to: $1 $2

vinny38Correct answer

Brainiac

\.\w

Should do the basic search.

But I'm sure GREP enthusiasts will come up with a more elegant solution.

I'm thinking about excluding emails or URL of the query, i.e.

winterm

Brainiac

Assuming new sentence always starts with Capital letter:

\.\u

Well, it's not more elegant and still can give you a certain number of false positives (depends on actual text).

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LetiÖAuthor

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It works too, thank you!

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