In the meantime, the best thing for me is using keyboard shortcuts. But there is one that stubbornly refuses to execute (the script works via the panel,) and when I apply the shortcut, it says "unassigned", weird. By @SuzzyFlamingo Possibly it's the scope of the shortcut you defined? Make sure the product area is aet to Scripts and context to Default. ... View more

You should asl try the alternate methods of resetting prefs, and for clearing the cache files, which you will find at Reset InDesign Preferences and Other Troubleshooting  ... View more

Hi! I'm unsure what program produced the PDF, it was handed off to me to use, but it would be between Illustrator or InDesign I'm sure. By @elise_6385   If you open the PDF in Acrobat and check the Document Properties Description tab, then the Additional Metadata button, and finally expand the Advanced section you'll find the creator information. ... View more

Try exporting the problem file to .idml and open and save that as a new .indd. If that still doesn't fix it, try moving the pages to a new file. ... View more

What program produced the PDF? Probably not the proplem if overprint previe is correct, but show the import options when you place the file and be sure Transparent Background is checked. ... View more

After you cancel the trial. try removing Acrobat with the CC Cleaner tool (Use the Creative Cloud Cleaner tool to solve installation problems ) which should remove any traces of the previous install, then try the free download again. ... View more

Are you able to open the file and then move the pages into a new document? That also can sometines work. ... View more

It may not work, but you can try this script: Blind open and IDML-export  Since the file doesn't open in the UI when it runs, it might work whre export from the UI does not. ... View more

I'm glad we were able to get it to work for you. ... View more

Glad to see you join in Joel. I fell with your help we'll get to the bottom of the problem. Curiouos, though, that neither bracket version worked. ... View more

When I paste your text into a text frame here the GREP works fine to find the last word (but it omits the other words in Hebrew). That said, I have a US English version of InDesign, so I cannot control the story direction or aaply any other middle east controls. To figure this out we need an actual .indd file from you, just a single page with a single text frame with one or two paragraphs, formatted exactly as you are doing in your book. You can attach it to a post made from the web page, but not to an email response. ... View more

Couldn't nested styles do this too?   By @Dave Creamer of IDEAS I think the requirement for no match if there's no colon rules out a nested style as it would end up matching the entire paragraph. ... View more

I have tried this! I have three Adobe products purchased and registered, and i Can find them all listed on the "Products" page. But under each product there is a "download" button, but it's not for the installer/actual product, it's only for extra language files! I By @stefanb62028529 I think you are mistaken about that. I've just checked for my CS6 web & Design Premium license (and finding the page that lists the legacies is not exaxtly straightforward) I get the installer files if I click the download button (I'm on Windows). ... View more

Your suggestion of: \S+(?=\[$) doesn't work. ...and then go change the style of the "]" By @SuzzyFlamingo UMMM.. in your post abpve you said the last character was "[", but now you say "]" which, if that's really what it is, explains why the GREP doesn't work and chaning to \S+(?=\]$) should take care of it unless there's a conflict with the bracket characters being different for Hebrew or Arabic. It would be useful to select your bracket and open the Glyphs panel to see what character it is. Pasting it in in place of the typed bracket might be necessary if it doesn't come up as the ascii character.   Can you post just a snippet of your text? We're really shooting blind here. ... View more

Sorry, missed the part where you don't want to capture the last character. Is it always [?  if so, try \S+(?=\[$) but this only will work if [ is the very last character, no space or punctuation following. ... View more

Another question... Is the correct language already assigned to those words, or is the GREP style being used to assign it? Since you seem to have two languages involved, you can't be using the a GREP style to do twolanguage assignments using the same pattern, so I suspect that means the language is already applied. If that's true, as @TᴀW mentions in at least one other thread, you can use the language assignment, either as the determining factor for a match, or as a qualifier to prevent changes to ther text that would match, but has the wrong language applied. ... View more

And of course, you need to find and fix whatever caused Windows to bluescreen... ... View more

Your file is almost certainly corrupted. It appears from the screen capture that you are saving to the cloud. Is that the case? if so, you should copy the file to your local hard drive and see what happens when you try to open it from there (I suspect it will still fail). You should probably also close InDesign and clear the inDesign Reovery folder at C:\Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Local\Adobe\InDesign\Version 19.0\<language>\Caches. You can just rename the InDesign Recovery folder and restart the program to create a new empty folder and still preserve any recovery data for Adobe in case a staff member joins in and asks for it. Failed recovery data is useless to you as a user and will throw the program into a constant failure loop. If the file opens, great. If not, as a Windows user you can try the tool at INDDRecovery — a program for restoring corrupted InDesign documents which as worked for me on occasion. you can also try the Blind open and IDML-export script. Do you have any backup versions of your work? ... View more

So...  @jmlevy 's expression says find all word characters (a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and underscore) followed by a period and the end of paragraph. From my reading, it appears that it does not match Hebrew and/or arabic characters. The use of non-Latin characters is an important bit of information. \S+?(?=\r|\z) matches any non-whitespace characters (shortest match, triggered by the ? after the + sign, but in fact that probably is not doing anything;\S is the negaive of \s which is any whitespace).  followed immediately by a paragraph return or the end of story (\r is the paragraph return, | is "or" and \z is end of story). This expression will also fail if there is any trailing white space at the end of your paragraph (an extra space after the last period, for example).  Since $ indicates the end of paragraph, even without a return at the end of a story, it is a much more compact way of saying \r|\z .  \S+\s*$ finds all non-whitespace characters along with any trailing whitespaces if they exist, immediately before the end of a paragraph ( the * after the \s means match zero or more occurences, so it picks up paragraph with or without the trailing spaces). It's not so much that GREP styles are finicky as that GREP expressions themselves can be tricky to design to match all of the text cases you want to find, and only those cases. There are times when it simply isn't possible to do with a single expression, and it is necessary to to use Find/Change with a series of expressions to accomplish the task. ... View more

It's not my book, it's by @Peter Kahrel  He's an absolute wizard. ... View more

@SuzzyFlamingo , @jmlevy 's answere should work, but I wanted to recommend to you Peter Kahrel's GREP tutorial:  https://www.amazon.com/GREP-InDesign-InDesignSecrets-Peter-Kahrel/dp/0982508387 It's comprehensive and actually pretty easy to follow, and you won't be sorry for aquiring your own GREP skills ... View more

And are the two errors shown in the preflight field related to this, or something else? ... View more

A sample of the pages would be helpful for sure, but at the very least you shouold take a screen capteer of one of the affected spreads, and the layers panel, fully expanded. ... View more

Maybe you shouold tell us what these features are that may not function going forward... ... View more

Start here: Reset InDesign Preferences and Other Troubleshooting  ... View more

What version of InDesign are you using? I presume that InDesing was working fine up until recently, and that you tried to install an update to a newer version. I'm curious where on the Adobe site you see that InDesign is compatible with Big Sur. System requirements for the current version are at https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/system-requirements.html I'm not a Mac user, but my guess is that your system is probably not able to run anything newer than CS6 or possibly the first one or two Creative Cloud versions. ... View more

My work does not involve indexing, but I'm a little confused. You say there is no index option in Find Change, and to the best of my knowledge that has forever been the case.  I think you're going to need to provide a better description of how you are trying to build your index for anyone here to be able to help.   ... View more