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• • March 2, 2016 at 9:10 am #82535
    Ilse Schrauwers

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    Hey all,
    As I am designing the layout for various theses, I often come across a problem, and I would like to know if it’s possible to solve it:

    People send me referencelists with hundreds of references, and numbers in list are more often then not converted to text.
    I want to give the listnumbers a different look: So I make a Paragraphstyle, use Drop Caps and Nested stiles, Lines 01, Characters 3, give them a Characterstyle.

    In this particular case, every number is followed by a ‘.’ (full stop) but I would like to change that into a ‘)’
    Now I thought; find replace the . with a ), using Find/Change, making sure Find Format is set to the correct Characterstyle…
    but I was wrong: now all full stops are changed, the ones in the referencetexts as well, meaninig that sentences now end with a )…
    doesnt matter if I use different color, different size, the tab behind the character…

    Is there something I could use to make it relatively easy to change a character in those lists? I have the idea I should use a different tactic alltogether, but have now idea what that would be…

    Hope you get what I’m after :D

    Cheers!
    Ilse

  • March 2, 2016 at 10:16 am #82539
    Masood Ahmad

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    Hi, If you want to replace the full stop with a ). for example: 1. will become 1), then you can edit the “Bullets and Numbering” dialog box and change the Number: ^#.^t to ^#)^t under the Numbering Style option.

    If you’re not using a Numbered List style then you can probable do a GREP Find/Change in the below given manner:

    GREP Find Change:
    Find what: (^\d+)(\.)
    Change to: $1)

    Hope that works for you…

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