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Eric Chapman
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Here's what I did since the string does not always include 3 digits before the colon and 3 after it, and this worked fine to find the proper ones and change them (one at a time).

In GREP “Find what:” <January(?= d+?:+?)

In GREP “Change to:” Januar

Now I'm trying to figure out how to record about 60 of these in one place. I have installed the

RecordFindChange_CS3_Kas.jsx

referred to here (https://creativepro.com/fin&#8230;..odness.php) and found here (https://www.kasyan.ho.com.ua/sc&#8230;..ories.html). I can see how it records the current parameters in the Find-Change dialog box to a text document called “findChangeStrings.txt”, but I haven't gotten the InDesign Script (that comes with ID CS4) called

FindChangeByList.jsx

to be able use what is saved in that file. I would assume the new text file with the intended Find-Change items saved by the RecordFindChange script should be saved maybe in the “Find Change Support” folder or where the original FindChangeList.txt file was. But I tried that and tried to run the FindChangeByList.jsx script, and nothing happened.

I also noted that the new text file still has some other stuff at the top for a text query. Maybe that must be deleted first? I tried that, but it also didn't work. Can there only be one FindChangeList.txt file? Does it have to have that name to run in the script? How should I save different txt files for this script and where should they be stored? How are they accessed?

This article was last modified on February 24, 2010

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