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• • July 26, 2019 at 5:17 am #1177797
    Jimmy Morén

    Member

    Hi!
    I’d like to change the color of the first four letters in a text frame. The same paragraph style is being used later in the same frame (and it has to be that way) but I only want to apply the color the first time.
    Is there a Grep format for this or an alternative method?
    Thanks in advance!
    Jimmy

  • July 26, 2019 at 7:25 am #14324384
    Kelly Vaughn

    Participant

    You can do a manual override of the paragraph style. Go to the Paragraph panel flyout > Drop Caps and Nested Styles, and then add a nested style that applies a specific character style to the first four letters.

  • July 26, 2019 at 7:48 am #14324381
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    I always like nested styles! But if you had dozens or hundreds of frames, that might take a long time to do manually.

    You could also do a GREP find/change and search for \A\w{4} and apply the formatting in the find/change dialog box. That code means “first four letters” of a story.”

    You could even add that code to a grep style inside your paragraph style and it would only apply the character style formatting to the first four of the story.

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