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• • January 23, 2014 at 3:17 pm #66788
    Tyler Sabourin

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    Hello,

    I’m trying to automate as much of the formatting of some sports stats as possible and I need some help with getting my GREP Find/Change call to work.

    The problem is that some of the team names are too long and are pushing the stats past their first tab-column. I can’t make my column widths bigger to accomodate so I need to shorten the names of the teams.

    So far I have for the Find field: (^)(\D{10,})() — At the beginning of a paragraph, find a string of characters (that aren’t numerals) 10 or larger, with a tab afterwards.

    I want to then have my action to change it to the first 6 characters with a “.”. However, when I’ve tried multiple GREP strings in the change field, but it tends to read anything that isn’t formatting as straight text.

    So: (\D{3}). — puts “\D{3}. ” into the replaced text.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks,
    Tyler

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