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Finding unformated footnote references in the text

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    • February 21, 2022 at 5:02 am #14358918
      Rivkah Lewis
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      I hvae a file with over 600 footnotes and while there is officially a footnote reference character style, it was not applied properly in the Word file and I inadvertently overrode them all and they are now part of the body text.

      When I tried searching for the numbers using GREP, it only found numbers such as years that were surrounded by spaces.

      How can I find all of the numbers, ranging from 1 digit to 3 digits, and apply a character style without finding numbers that aren’t footnotes.

      I’m sure there must be some solution…

    • February 21, 2022 at 10:15 am #14358929
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      GREP is all about finding patterns, so you need to identify what’s different about those numbers. For example this expression: (?<=|[[:punct:]])\d+
      will find all numbers that follow a lower-case letter or punctuation

    • February 21, 2022 at 10:18 am #14358930
      Dieter Stockert
      Member

      Maybe this can help: https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/grep-for-findind-footnote-references/td-p/10674987

    • February 22, 2022 at 3:04 am #14358934
      Rivkah Lewis
      Member

      David – that didn’t work. It found the last 3 digits for things like 6,000. But didn’t find any footnote references. I’d love to understand why.

      Dieter – thank you! That worked like a charm!

    • February 22, 2022 at 6:48 am #14358935
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Sorry my GREP didn’t work better… it’s tricky! But Peter Kahrel’s solution on that Adobe forum thread to use ^F is a great one… as long as the numbers are actually footnotes. I had made the (wrong) assumption that you just had numbers in text. The ^F code will work in Find/Change if the numbers are inserted using the Insert > Footnote feature.

    • February 22, 2022 at 8:47 pm #14359097
      Rivkah Lewis
      Member

      No need to me sorry :)
      I just like getting to the bottom of these things.

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