Reply To: Can conditional text be assigned “automatically”?

Thanks for the reminder. I'll add the hyphen just in case :)

I couldn't use index brutal last time I made the catalog for this client, as I had a list of words they wanted used but none were related to the actual products' “names”, so I had to do it manually (yay) but this time he put the index words in the Excel file so it'll be less of a hassle.

I'll also make sure to check the index itself won't have any conditions applied to it. It wouldn't be the first time something went wrong with an order for that particular client (though so far it's always been their fault for signing off on something that contained errors) and I'd like this to go well the first time around :)

On a slightly different note: I might have come up with a way to use plain text rather than tables. Using one Paragraph Style with tabs and Line Styles, and offsetting the Underlines and Strikethroughs in the Line Styles' associated Character Styles, you can quite easily create a table look-alike with alternating row colors. That way editing and working with conditional text will be a lot easier, and the GREP won't give problems (for me at least) due to tables. It's also easier than managing multiple table, row and cell styles.