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How to replace a given text with a checkmark

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    • April 25, 2012 at 3:54 pm #62064
      RoManuV
      Member

      Hi, I need a hand to accomplish this, it must be a GREP but I didn't succeed to do it by myself: I have to search the word “yes” preceded by a tab, and replace “yes” by a checkmark (Windings character 0xFC, or is it possible to replace it with an image?) while keeping the tab.

      Thank you in advance for your help.

    • April 25, 2012 at 3:58 pm #62065
      David Blatner
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      You can probably do this in the normal Text tab (not grep). Just search for ^tyes and replace it with ^C

      What is ^C? It means “replace with whatever is on the clipboard.” So before you do this find/change, select whatever you want it to look like and copy it to the clipboard (including images).

    • April 25, 2012 at 4:26 pm #62066
      RoManuV
      Member

      Thank you David for your quick reply, in the meanwhile I finally managed to find this grep too:

      • Find: tyes

      • Change to: txFC

      • Find format: (my paragraph style)

      • Change format: +Wingdings

      I wonder if there is a way to apply this automatically, like we do with grep styles?

      I mean, I need this to be done on files resulting from a data merge, and I am talking about 100+ files…

    • May 3, 2012 at 11:32 am #62124
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      GREP Styles cannot change text, but you can sort of fake it with a special font. See this blog post: https://creativepro.com/ins…..styles.php

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