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Finding character styles with Grep styles.

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    • September 24, 2010 at 4:43 pm #57119
      Mitchell Osborne
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      I have a project where I need to find and replace one character style with another. No problem at all with the find/change function. However, I'd like to build this in to a paragraph style to automate it and move on. Telling the grep style what character style I want to use is easy. However, it is unclear to me how to find the existing character style. How do you search for a particular character style to replace within the grep style dialog box in paragraph styles? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    • September 25, 2010 at 9:48 am #57123
      Theunis De Jong
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      It's not possible, GREP styles are meant to look for text patterns only.

    • September 25, 2010 at 6:44 pm #57125
      Mitchell Osborne
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      I was afraid of that. I was hoping I'd overlooked something.

      Doing what's needed is not a problem. I was just hoping to automate the process and focus it in, because the character style only needs replacing in certain parts of the document, not globally.

      Now I have a wish list replace. Create a “style” within the Paragraph style dialog box that allows you to find an applied character style and replace it. Why not have a find/change feature available for paragraph styles?

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