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• • April 15, 2024 at 2:27 pm #14402537
    Lindsey Engelhardt

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    Hi! I think what I’m trying to do can be accomplished through GREP, but I’m very new to it. I’m doing a data merge, and I want to add a GREP expression into my paragraph style to apply a bold character style to the department name as part of the data merge. Here’s some example text:

    “In Illinois, the Department of Health and Human Services serves as …”

    The state name will change for each state when I do the data merge, so I think the GREP expression needs to use the comma as it’s starting point and “serves as” as the ending point. How do I indicate the start and end points?

    Thanks so much!

  • April 15, 2024 at 2:54 pm #14402539
    David Blatner

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    Hi Lindsey! Great that you’re trying this. This might work:
    (?<=,).+?(?=serves)

    That searches for anything PRECEDED by a comma followed by a space, and followed by the word "serves"

    There are a ton of resources here:
    https://creativepro.com/resources/grep/

  • April 16, 2024 at 6:55 am #14402562
    Lindsey Engelhardt

    Participant

    Thank you so much, David! That worked. Thanks also for the explanation of what the expression says and the resources. Now I have a GREP fishing pole.

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