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    • March 30, 2010 at 10:51 pm #55378
      Massey Padgham
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      As a GREP newbie, I thought my searches rarely working was just me goofing. My experience is that I can make a search work if it does anything as long as it did not include looking for a plain word. Yet all the advice I get from books and forums is that I should be able to search for a word, say 'with', in a straightforward manner in either the grep or text tab of the Find.Change panel.

      So after experimenting for awhile, I find my InDesign behaves like this.

      Upon start up, if I search for a word (either by typing it or cutting and pasting it from the text) in the GREP find what line, it will be found.

      As soon as I do a search in the text field, any further searches I try in GREP will not work if they include a plain word or a plain word in combination with any sort of pattern search. I just get a 'not found' message. Yet the word is in the text and the text search will find it.

      And yes, I am searching on the entire document.

      Am I doing something wrong? Any ideas?

    • March 31, 2010 at 2:27 am #55386
      LAURENT TOURNIER
      Member

      Hello,

      Don't forget that GREP is case-sensitive and whole word by default.

    • March 31, 2010 at 2:31 am #55387
      Theunis De Jong
      Member

      .. GREP is case-sensitive

      True

      and whole word by default. ..

      False :-D

      Massey, are you using hotkeys for “Find Next” and “Find Next Grep”? I don't (well, only for regular “Find next”) and never have had this problem.

    • March 31, 2010 at 8:03 am #55391
      LAURENT TOURNIER
      Member

      and whole word by default.

      False

      Of course ! Où ai-je la tête ! C'est pourtant le B.a.ba !

      Merci Jongware pour ta vigilance.

    • March 31, 2010 at 9:15 am #55392
      Massey Padgham
      Member

      No hotkeys and not specifying whole words.

      First search on startupof InDesign: Grep, cut and paste in the word 'with' which is in the document many times. It finds the first one and I can step through the document with Find Next. In testing, I never replaced.

      Then, in the text tab, the same word. It finds the first one and I can step though the doc using Find Next. Again, no replace.

      Back to Grep, the same search, the same way as the first time and .. boom .. no match found.

      Not searching for or replacing with any formatting in all cases.

      I'm stumped

    • March 31, 2010 at 10:55 am #55393
      Anonymous
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      I'm thinking your preferences or the document are corrupt.

      If it happens on all new documents then it's something with the preferences, and you can rebuild them

      https://creativepro.com/reb…..rences.php

      If it's just that document then you could try exporting the file to .inx (File>Export and choose Adobe Interchange) open that in InDesign (opens as Untitled) and try the search again.

      I've had it before when system resources were low that the Find button gets the grayed out treatment, even though I have things to find in the Find Field.

      So perhaps a reboot or allocating more resources to InDesign would solve that?

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