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Delete text from multiple table cells in one go?

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    • January 20, 2023 at 1:33 pm #14385428
      Patti Moran
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      My art director gave me the template of a document with about 40 pages of threaded tables that all have dummy text in every cell. Is there any way to delete the text from multiple cells at once, rather than clicking into each individual cell and deleting the text in just that one cell?

    • January 20, 2023 at 1:41 pm #14385430
      Stacey Horne
      Participant

      I assume this is an InDesign template.Try this.

      To delete cell contents without deleting cells, select the cells containing the text you want to delete, or use the Type tool to select the text within the cells. Press Backspace or Delete, or choose Edit >Clear

      • January 20, 2023 at 2:53 pm #14385437
        Patti Moran
        Member

        Very strange. I tried that first, of course, as it’s the logical thing to do… but it was deleting the entire cell! Now when I do it, it deletes the text, but leaves the cell in place. Huh. Well, thanks for making me try again… it’s working now! Won’t be a difficult matter to just do that on each table.

    • January 20, 2023 at 2:46 pm #14385436
      Godfried Vonk
      Participant

      Select the entire table, in GREP search field type: .+ (this means: “one or more (+) of any character (.) )
      GREP change field stays empty,
      search in: ‘selection’
      press ‘change all’

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