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• • August 8, 2019 at 7:59 am #1179797
    Allan Colombo

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    I’ve placed a .doc file in my project and I’d like to search for all paragraphs that contains the value 1,2488 cm set in the first line left indent box and change it to 0,5 cm.

    I’m trying to use the option “Find format/change format” in the find/change dialog box (ctrl+f).

    However, Indesign won’t find any paragraph. I think it’s a bug because when I tried to edit the paragraph left indent value to 1cm and tried to search again, it worked fine. But since all paragraphs are set to 1,2488 cm, I can’t go through one by one.

    Do you know any other way I could work this issue out?

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    https://we.tl/t-xDltv23CBS

  • August 8, 2019 at 11:00 am #14324323
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    I’m not sure. One idea is to copy the text from the field in the Control panel and then paste it into the Find/Change dialog box. Another option is to switch from cm to points or picas or something and see if that works.

  • August 8, 2019 at 11:59 am #14324322
    Theunis De Jong

    Member

    InDesign is far more accurate than the paltry 4 or 5 dgitis you see on screen. See https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2485366 on how to copy the “actual” value into Find Format — it only takes a single line of JavaScript:

    app.findTextPreferences.leftIndent = app.selection[0].leftIndent;

  • August 8, 2019 at 12:08 pm #14324321
    Theunis De Jong

    Member

    — ah, that is Left Indent. For First Line use

    app.findTextPreferences.firstLineIndent = app.selection[0].firstLineIndent;

  • August 8, 2019 at 12:12 pm #14324320
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    WOW. That’s awesome. Sometimes these one-liner scripts just blow my mind.

    Allan, if you’re not sure what to do with that, see this:
    https://indesignsecrets.com/how-to-install-a-script-in-indesign-that-you-found-in-a-forum-or-blog-post.php

  • August 10, 2019 at 1:23 am #14324317
    Dhafir Photo

    Participant

    Try to do this update:
    https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/search-issue-in-long-documents.html?fbclid=IwAR2cPaXP_DR-eKuEQusBDywIhtfk4A3j_FenPQ_k35ObnuXqwsqaiXkU8PE

  • September 30, 2019 at 8:32 am #14324015
    Theunis De Jong

    Member

    InDesign’s measurements are far (far, far!) more accurate than the paltry 4 or 5 digits shown in the control panel and the rest of the interface. It can handle differences as small as 0.00001pt (uh, probably even smaller!). David’s trick of switching to another measurement unit may work well. Usually such indents are logically based on, say, 1/6th of an inch – which can only translate to lots of invisible decimals when converted to millimeters. (And the other way around too.)

    But there is another factor at play: the initial accuracy of the conversion from (presumably) a Word document to InDesign. At that point it is possible that some rounding introduces a small difference at the umpteenth position, and what is reported on-screen as “1.25pt” may internally be stored as “1.24999999435pt”.

    For such cases I use a one-line script that copies the actual value of such an indent into the Find formatting field:

    See also this older post of mine in the Adobe forum (which pretty much says the same): https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2485366

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