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• • October 25, 2015 at 4:06 pm #78976
    Anonymous

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    How can I find and highlight every instance of an italicized word in my InDesign document so I can copy and paste it into my copyright page?

  • October 25, 2015 at 4:21 pm #78977
    ddwebdev

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    Using Find/change window
    Button GREP
    Find: .* ( dot follow by asterix )
    Find format: italic

  • October 25, 2015 at 4:29 pm #78978
    Anonymous

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    Thank you but there are hundreds of italicized words and I want to highlight and copy all of the them at once and paste all of them into a new document for copyright purposes.

    All that happens with Grep using a dot followed by an asterix is that InDesign just goes to each italicized word.

    Any help would save me going through each word and copying and pasting.

  • October 26, 2015 at 2:07 am #78983
    Chris Thompson

    Member

    Is it possible to:
    – make a copy of the document (as this destroys the text),
    – then find the non-italic stuff and replace with nothing,
    – then use something to extract the remaining text?

    Chris.

  • October 26, 2015 at 10:26 am #78990
    ddwebdev

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    By find/change window..GREP
    1.1- Found italic
    1.2- Replace by Found+special char in italic ( something is not in your text ) ( XOX )
    2.1- Found all reg
    2.2- Replace by nothing
    3.1- Found all End of paragraph
    3.2- Replace by nothing
    4.1- Find special char in italic( XOX )
    4.2- Replace by End of paragraph
    At the end you have all italic text… line by line
    Check indesign Sample Script ( Find&ChangeByList ) you can automate all these step in once

    • October 26, 2015 at 7:21 pm #79004
      ddwebdev

      Participant

      After testing i dont think that you can find format (italic) by GREP script (Find&ChangeByList)
      But if you save every step in the find/change window… It can be faster
      Or maybe call Grep window by applescript

    • March 31, 2016 at 3:35 pm #83587
      Ari Singer

      Member

      I believe that you actually can save a Find Format and Change Format in the FindChangeByList script. This is the way I do it:

      text {findWhat: "", fontStyle:"Italic"}

      Notice that I used the Text command, but GREP should work just as fine.

  • October 29, 2015 at 5:42 pm #79103
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    I found the non-italic text and deleted all of it and then sorted the italics that were left. Took a while but its done.

    I will try out your what you advise on another publication and let you know how it turned out. Thanks so much for this help.

  • March 31, 2016 at 10:53 am #83550
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    awesome comments thanks guys ..

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