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• • April 13, 2017 at 5:49 am #93692
    Anonymous

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    I have a scientific document. The document contains several Abstracts. Some of the abstracts will start like, “Background: xxxxxx”. Others won’t start like that at all. On the ones that do I would like to have “Background:” changed to a bold style. I have figured out how to make that happen using a GREP, however, how do I make sure that it doesn’t happen anywhere else in that paragraph should any character be followed by a :? This is what I have now ^.+: but I only want this applied at the beginning of the paragraph if it is there. The way it is now, if a “:” appears anywhere else within that paragraph it will bold all the words before it.

    I hope that makes sense.

  • April 13, 2017 at 5:55 am #93694
    Anonymous

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    Couldn’t
    ^Background:
    do it ?

  • April 13, 2017 at 5:56 am #93695
    David Blatner

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    This might work: ^[^.?!]+?:
    The caret at the beginning means “beginning of the paragraph” and the caret inside the brackets means “not”… so this will find any series of characters at the beginning of a paragraph up to a colon, but not if there’s a period, question mark, or exclamation point between the start of the paragraph and the colon.

  • April 13, 2017 at 6:05 am #93696
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Oh Man….Thank you DAVID. That works beautifully.

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