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• • April 10, 2019 at 5:35 am #115997
    Anonymous

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    Hi, is there any way to format numbers and use it in a paragraph style using GREP?

    I have an tab separated text (from Excel) file with numbers looking like 1234567890. In Indesign I will use this file to generate barcodes, one for each page in the output file.

    But, I want the numbers to be formatted as 123 456 78 90. I tried to use search/replace with GREP and i worked fine, my search looks like:
    Search: (\d\d\d)(\d\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d) Replace: $1 $2 $3 $4 , the result is exactly like I want it to be. But how do I apply the GREP search to a Paragraph style when generating codes?

    Best;
    Henrik Robertsson – Not so smart Indesign user… :)

  • April 10, 2019 at 6:15 am #115998
    Dieter Stockert

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    Find-Change is not possible as part of a paragraph style. GREP within a paragraph style only works as embedded character style.

  • April 10, 2019 at 11:22 pm #116005
    Anonymous

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    Thanks for the swift reply. OK, so it’s not possible then.
    Then I will fix it in Excel before generation in Indesign.

  • April 11, 2019 at 12:25 am #116007
    Dieter Stockert

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    Do you really need ‘true’ spaces? Otherwise you can make it look like spaces with a character style that applies some character distance.

  • April 11, 2019 at 12:33 am #116008
    Anonymous

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    No, not really, just for show works as well. Do you have an example of using a character style to solve this?

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