Reply To: GREP incorrectly shifting italics over in found text

Matt,

InDesign formatting points to text ranges. When you change the text using Text or Grep changes, the text is changed but the format pointers aren’t updated. In your case you can get around this problem as follows:

1. Find what: ^\[FIGURE \d+:+
Change to:
Change format: the caption paragraph style

2. Find what: \]$
Find format: the caption style
Change to: <nothing>
Change format: <nothing>

Note that the italics have to be in a character style because applying a paragraph style using find/change nukes local formatting.

Peter