Reply To: GREP styles and soft returns

.. there is a slight glitch. If I apply a soft return to the paragraph ..

Yep — noticed this before. It seems a soft return is also picked up by “^” as a new line. Well … technically it is a forced new line, of course. The odd thing is that GREP sees it as a new paragraph, whereas InDesign treats all as a single paragraph, and always has done so. Perhaps it's a mere oversight by the programmers when they added GREP.

If I apply a soft return to the paragraph, ie. in order to force a word to the next line ..

Avoid that. Use non-breaking spaces (there is a default shortcut for that) or No Break (no shortcut by default, but since it's so useful I added one to my own KB set).