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• • December 11, 2019 at 10:04 am #1202402
    JS D

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    Hello,

    I am very new to GREP queries and after a lot of trials and Google searches I am not able to accomplish what I am looking for. So here is the situation:

    The text I am working on has many numbered headings (such as “2.1 This is a level two heading” or “2.1.1 This is a level three heading”) that were written in the document (no numbered list). I want to replace the first space after the digits by an En space + Indent to here.

    Thanks in advance for your help!

    JS

    EDIT: This is what I have right now –> FIND: –> CHANGE: ~>~i –> FIND FORMAT: Heading 2

  • December 11, 2019 at 10:27 am #14323582
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    With GREP you could search for (\d[\d.]+?) and then replace it with $1~>~i

  • December 11, 2019 at 11:30 am #14323581
    JS D

    Participant

    Works like a charm, thanks David! Would you mind explaining these codes, so that I can better understand GREP in the future?

  • December 11, 2019 at 11:45 am #14323579
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Great question… sorry, I should have done that. Was typing too quickly. :-)

    • The stuff in the parentheses is the stuff you want to keep.
    • \d means “any digit”
    • the stuff in the brackets means “any one of these things”
    • the +? means “one or more of these”
    • means “any space”

    So the result is “find a digit, followed by one or more digts-or-dots, followed by any space… then replace it with the numbers and dots, followed by an em dash and an indent-to-here character.”

  • December 11, 2019 at 11:59 am #14323578
    JS D

    Participant

    This is great, thanks very much!

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