Reply To: Applying Character Style GREP with forced line break

Whenever you are trying to apply a style from the beginning of a paragraph, nested styles is going to be easier. In this case you would make the nested style go to ,/ (if you replace the word “Words” with your own characters, the style spans to whichever one character it finds first.

This works fine for me, even if there is a line break in the paragraph. But note that a line break is a Shift-Return. If you choose Type > Show Hidden Characters, the line break should look like an “L” on its side (not the ¶ character).