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• • November 20, 2016 at 9:51 am #89915
    Anonymous

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    Hello!
    I am doing 300 b5 pages book in InDesign CC.
    All text is typed in Microsoft Word.

    Some paragraphs are beginning with a single space (seems like a repeated mistake by typist)
    I was trying to use find/replace to change it, but nothing worked, actually.

    I need to find one return followed by a single space and change it to two returns *(client needs to separate each paragraph with one blank line)
    First line of every paragraph also has 10mm inset (which is already done).

  • November 20, 2016 at 10:06 am #89916
    Jay Farschman

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    Aleksandar,

    I don’t use Microsoft Word anymore so i could not do an exact test, but try using the GREP button and then search for

    ^

    and replace it with nothing. To explain this

    ^ = the beginning of a line
    = means any single whitespace character

    I hope this helps.

  • November 20, 2016 at 11:16 am #89917
    Anonymous

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    Jay, THANX a lot! It worked!
    … obviously, I am pretty new to GREP, and don’t really know the symbols, so I am trying to find what I need under “special characters for search menu” …
    Anyway, what is standard return (one enter at the end of paragraph) symbol?

    I have these options and can not get to understand the descriptions (differences between them):
    ~b ~k \r

  • November 20, 2016 at 11:51 am #89918
    Dwayne Harris

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    I just would have fixed it in the Word file.

    Look for ^p + space band and replace with ^p^p

    I don’t work with GREP very much, but I think (and I could be wrong) that \r is a hard return and is a soft return.

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