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    • April 11, 2019 at 12:35 pm #116018
      Dalila DE JESUS
      Participant

      Hi there, this may not be the place for this, but i’m on a crazy tight timeline today on a very long document and i remembered sitting in a grep session at creative pro last year, and wish right now that I played with this feature, can someone please give me the grep code for… i have bolded words at the beginning of many paragraphs that end in a colon and I need to change them from black to purple…i know this is probably super simple, but i just don’t have the head space for this right now…help would so greatly appreciated. thank you

    • April 11, 2019 at 12:44 pm #116021
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Usually, the best way to handle “run-in” headers like this is with a nested style. You can assign a character style to all the words that lead up to a colon. Replace the word “Words” with the colon character, like this:

    • April 11, 2019 at 1:04 pm #116022
      Dalila DE JESUS
      Participant

      Thanks for your quick response David, unfortunately, I’m a little confused. Is this how to handle this situation…

      Screen Shot 2019-04-11 at 4.01.47 PM.png

    • April 11, 2019 at 1:07 pm #116023
      Dalila DE JESUS
      Participant

      looks like I can’t seem to figure out how to paste an image..lol

    • April 11, 2019 at 1:12 pm #116024
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Yeah, the only way to do that on this forum is to post it to an image sharing site, such as Imgur and then post the link here.

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