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• • August 3, 2011 at 6:14 am #60205
    ilanpeeri

    Member

    I'm new to GREP styles.

    How do I define the following:

    At the beginning of a paragraph, any word/s including the spaces between them which are followed by a colon

    so, it will find

    Address:

    or

    Capital managed:

    etc.

  • August 3, 2011 at 6:57 am #60207
    Theunis De Jong

    Member

    Easy-peasy.

    ^[^:]+(?=:)

    Or an alternative:

    ^.+?(?=:)

    Both are rigged to mark up to, but not include, the very first colon.

  • August 3, 2011 at 11:10 am #60209
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Or you could just use a nested style. That's probably easier. Just say “up to (or through) the first colon.” (You can replace the word “characters” in the nested style with a colon (or any character).

  • August 3, 2011 at 11:39 pm #60213
    ilanpeeri

    Member

    Thanks a lot. It's morning here now, so I'm going to try it right away.

  • August 3, 2011 at 11:43 pm #60214
    ilanpeeri

    Member

    And Mr. Blatner, I owe you a great deal for your excellant book from 1994 – QuarkXpress. The best guide I ever read. Not to mention the InDesign CS2 book that got me into InDesign.

    I now use Lynda.com – your course for GREP already helped.

    Thanks.

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