Reply To: GREP for Chapter Number?

Elizabeth,

I really havent used the Chapter number variable and the times I’ve tried to play with it hoping that it would work, I ended up more confused as why it didnt work like I felt it should (probably because I dont use the Book feature in InDesign). It seems that Variables are only included in Find and not Replace so maybe they arent supported in the Replace field. That’s odd, but the only thing I can think of.

This might be a little in a different direction, but this article seemed like it might be helpful, or at least along the same lines. They are using the Chapter number but within paragraph styles, mainly bullets and numbering, with the Text faux-GREP which actually surprised me because I never thought to use bullets and numbering this way.

https://blog.rockymountaintraining.com/adobe-indesign-numbering-chapters-subheads-tables-figures/