GREP of the Month: Email Addresses
How to automatically format email addresses when applying a paragraph style.
InDesign helps you format email addresses when you use the Convert URLs to Hyperlinks command (in the Hyperlinks panel menu). But you have to run this command manually and repeat the process every time you’re handed new text. Instead, why not automate this process using GREP styles?
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To avoid anything outside the address you can use
and this is will better:
Did not work for me.
Didn’t work for me either. Instead I used:
.+@.+..+
and it worked perfectly for email addresses with letters, punctuation, and numbers before or after the “@” sign. Neither my GREP Find nor the GREP styles dialog recognized the “S” or “s” characters as anything.
Looks like the site ate some of Bart’s code, specifically backslashes. Fixed now. Try it again and sorry for the hassle.
No need to use wS+ because S includes w