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Hi everyone,
I try to do a very simple thing, but but but...
I would like to know EXACTLY how the tool is working :
I understood the basics, you take a term, and you change it in something else, okay, but "when" ? When you click on the button ? When you open your document ? What if you delete the request ?
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Share your document so that we can have a look, by reading what you said it should work. However, as i said difficult to say what's wrong with this without having a look
-Manan
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Ho, it's not that complicated :
Create a new document InDesign, create a new CSV file (American format), link the CSV to the InDesgin file as a Data Merge, put some data inside, then in InDesign, try to Find & Replace a term that you placed in your CSV file : does it work for you ?
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I Did a data merge and replaced stuff afterwards. Worked as expected.
So I assume it's something with your setup. Sharing your document might be necessary if you expect further help.
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Set a GREP style for the text.
It will be plain text up to your symbol
Hospital Icons Font through 1 symbol
Apply this Paragraph Style with the GREP style to your line of text in the data merge.
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So the data contains a unique phrase that you want to convert to an icon DURING a data merge of some sort, fair to say?
I wouldn't use find/replace at all as that will only work on a data merge file that has been merged to a long document, rather than the pre-merge document. Instead, I would use a technique from Daniel Solis (aka Card at work):
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Okay, so, it was alsmost the way I was doing it, with a small difference : I was choosing a Font, then I used to add an uncuttable space before then the character, for exemple " *" [ALT255*], then applying a GREP style on it.
It was not perfect because the uncuttable space is not always the same in all Font, so I had to replace the uncuttable space with a GREP >.> (GREP Style on a GREP Style, Inception/10).
On the link you show to me, it seems very interesting, but I didnt understand how the software understand that "xxPoint" was equal to a symbol, it's because of the "ligature" system ?
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Indeed, I have to "force" the ligature on each style, it's working.