Reply To: Use document name without extension and a grep question

Yes a nested style can be applied to the whole variable text but not to part of it.

InDesign treats these type of items as a single character so no GREP, editing, formatting to part of the result are possible.

Dimitri can you post exactly what the variable text is and then how you want it to appear?
It looked to me as though you wanted to remove part of the file name when it is placed. Or do you just want to format the result?