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I need to make a GREP, it must find a word which has two different colours

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    • November 5, 2014 at 3:45 am #71437
      Anonymous
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      Hello, I need to make a GREP, it must find a word which has two different colours, is it possible? Thank you so much

    • November 5, 2014 at 5:06 am #71439
      Anonymous
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      Do you think it would be possible with a script or is there any other way to do it?

      I have a document with certain words in red. When I import that document into InDesign, it doesn’t work properly, as it changes automatically some letters of those words in red leaving them in black (only one letter per word). Checking every word takes a lot of time, and that’s why I was asking if there’s any way to do it automatically.

    • November 5, 2014 at 6:35 am #71440
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      You can search for color as part of the Find/Change. So you can search for any text that is black or any text that is red. Unfortunately, you cannot search for “any text that is black in the middle of a word that is red.” GREP or Find/Change cannot see the formatting of the text around it.

    • November 5, 2014 at 7:08 am #71443
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Then, I check every word with forbearance.Thank you so much, David :-)

    • November 6, 2014 at 1:54 am #71468
      Chris Thompson
      Member

      I think I would be looking at the import process, or further back at the process for creating the original document, so that you can find a way to avoid the manual checking.
      Is there any different way to define the “rules” in which some words must be red?

      What format is the imported document? If it’s Word, you could try switching between doc and docx formats before importing. Maybe.

      Chris.

    • November 6, 2014 at 7:25 am #71474
      Oleh Melnyk
      Member

      @Chris – Is there any different way to define the “rules” in which some words must be red?

      you can create character style with red text color.. then in paragraph style, in GREP section apply those character style you just created, and for grep rule write:
      YOUR_DESIRED_WORD|or phrase that need to be in red

    • November 6, 2014 at 7:38 am #71475
      Chris Thompson
      Member

      Yes, what we need to know is: what are the rules for “which words are red”? Only the OP can answer that.
      Chris.

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