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• • May 8, 2011 at 2:42 pm #59529
    imagepublique

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    Hi,

    Thanks as always. I'm new to GREP searches, but I am using CS3 and finding it hard to get help as everything seems to be based on CS4+ GREP styles.

    I basiclaly want to bold text up text after the first, third and fourth comma. Is this possible? I already have character and para styles set up.

    An example would be:

    679,03:26:59,1003,Mister,Person,M,

    so it would be

    679,03:26:59,1003,Mister,Person,M,

    If anyone could point me in right direction, or links etc, be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks

  • May 11, 2011 at 7:06 am #59562
    Anne-Marie Concepcion

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    I don't think you need GREP, just a nested style should do it. Be sure you have a character style that only applies Bold styling to the text. I'll call the style Bold in this example.

    Edit the paragraph style that you're applying to those entries.

    679,03:26:59,1003,Mister,Person,M,

    Let's say the paragraph style is called Entry. Double-click the Entry paragraph style and click Drop Caps and Nested Styles. Add four nested styles (just click New Nested Style button to add these).

    There are 4 fields in each Nested Style that you need to specify: Name of character style, Up to/Through, a number, and a stop character. You can manually enter a comma in the stop character field.

    So your nested styles should be:

    NONE | Through | 1 | ,

    BOLD | Through | 1 | ,

    NONE | Through | 1 | ,

    BOLD | Through | 2 | ,

    –AM

  • May 11, 2011 at 3:13 pm #59569
    imagepublique

    Member

    Thanks Anne-Marie that's great, very much appreciated!

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