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• • November 29, 2011 at 3:29 am #61182
    RedMoFo

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    I produce documents with 100s of pages of accounting tables. Within each table, loss figures appear in parenthesis and their Cell Style has a different right indent in allow the ')' to hang. Is it possible to apply this style throughout a document using a GREP expression?

    Many thanks in advance.

    Red

  • November 29, 2011 at 4:20 am #61183
    Theunis De Jong

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    No, if you look in the Replace field of Find/Change you can see there is no option for that.

  • November 29, 2011 at 8:52 am #61185
    RedMoFo

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    Hi Jongware,

    thanks for your speedy reply.

    However, I wasn't thinking GREP exclusively. I know I can apply a GREP style to the contents of any cell which starts and ends with parenthesis. I expect therefore that somewhere in the bowels of the file, the code for cell + content + GREP will appear. It's way beyond my ken, but I was wondering if this configuration could trigger a script to apply a different cell style, or simply amend the right indent of the cell. (I use the word simply with my tongue firmly in my cheek!)

  • December 2, 2011 at 1:53 am #61202
    Rhiannon Miller

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    Why do you need a different right indent? Would a digital-aligned tab in the paragraph style not do the trick?

  • December 7, 2011 at 10:08 am #61236
    RedMoFo

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    Tried it and it does work, however it has implications for those cell whose data is followed by units ie. pence, cents, %, million, billion, etc. and more so, those with no data at all, indicated with either an en dash or the word nil.

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