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• • December 11, 2012 at 3:48 pm #63727
    Missy

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    I need to turn this:

    The SERVICE Screen is accessed by pressing the SERVICE SCREEN button on the MAIN Screen. (Sometimes the “S” in screen is lowercase)

    into this:

    The Service screen is accessed by pressing the SERVICE SCREEN button on the Main screen.

    I have a GREP that will find the ALL CAPS words:

    /<[A-Z]{2,}>

    And I have one to find all the instances of “Screen” not followed by the word “button”:

    Screen(?! button)

    But how do I find an ALL CAPS word followed by the word “Screen” (with or without a capital S) that is NOT followed by the word “button”?

    I would also like the Change to: format if someone knows.

    My head hurts.

    Missy

  • December 11, 2012 at 6:24 pm #63728
    Theunis De Jong

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    Strangley enough, you can nest positive and negative lookaheads!

    In steps: find All Caps with bu{2,}

    followed by “[Ss]creen” (uppercase or lowercase 's'), we get

    bu{2,}(?=s[Ss]creen)

    (I'm assuming you want a space in between) but then not followed by “button”, which is (?!sbutton):

    bu{2,}(?=s[Ss]creen(?!sbutton))

    Note how the negative lookahead for “button” is inside the positive lookahead for “screen”. (The trick to insert in this editor is to insert them twice: \.)

    Now for the bad news…

    I would also like the Change to: format if someone knows.

    Often asked, but unfortunately InDesign's GREP cannot automatically change uppercase to lowercase, or the reverse.

  • December 12, 2012 at 7:31 am #63733
    Missy

    Member

    Thank you so much Jongware.

    Wonder when Adobe will put in the case feature. It seems like a no-brainer.

    Ah, Adobe.

    Thanks again!

    Missy

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