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GREP search for 'Inverse' or 'Not'?

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    • May 10, 2018 at 2:40 am #103624
      Humphrey Barber
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      I regularly import documents from Word which have multiple footnotes. I often find that some ‘Word Black’ has crept in and subtly changed the text colours in given paragraphs, or there is some blue text remaining from improperly deleted hyperlinks. To convert all the main text to ‘InDesign Black’ I can select the entire text and change the colour – easy.

      But then… footnotes. Due to the way ID handles them, I cannot select them all, but I have to go through them individually, expunging the unwanted colours bit by bit.

      Can I find all the text that is NOT black and convert it? I can’t seem to find a ‘select inverse’ or ‘select not’ function in GREP, but surely it must exist?

      Please save me many tedious hours!

    • May 10, 2018 at 3:03 am #103625
      Graham Park
      Member

      You are going to need a script, try Obi Wan.

      • May 10, 2018 at 12:40 pm #103634
        Michel Allio for FRIdNGE
        Participant

        Obi-wan Kenobi has definitely disappeared in december 2018! …
        [ Apparently, you didn’t see the movie! ;-) ]

        Best,
        Michel, from FRIdNGE

    • May 10, 2018 at 10:27 am #103627
      Theunis De Jong
      Member

      You can delete the color swatch and have it replaced with [Black].

      If you don’t want to (you might have the swatches used somewhere else): click the text cursor inside a footnote with the override color. Redefine style – it’ll assign that wrong color to the style you used for footnotes. Then change the color in the style definition to [Black].

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