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January 2, 2025 at 12:44 pm #14410222
David Blatner
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Sorry that I gave you wrong information. I did not read your original post carefully enough.

Yes, the problem is that variables are considered a single character in InDesign! The only way to format some words inside a variable is to convert it to regular text. There is a script to do that:

Script to convert all text variables

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