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• • August 7, 2019 at 12:31 pm #1179477
    Mattie Wells

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    Hi! Currently, my nested style is the first sentence of the paragraph and they are bolded. My client wants them to be subheads instead. I was trying to think of a script, find and change, or other automated way to change them all.

    Thanks for your help! I am new to using scripts and more automated solutions so the easier to follow directions the better :)

  • August 7, 2019 at 7:32 pm #14324333
    David Blatner

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    Just to be sure I understand what you mean: you have something like this:

    This is my heading. And here is some more text.

    and you want to change it to:
    This is my heading.
    And here is some more text.

    Yes?

    I’m not sure you can do that with a single find/change, but you can probably do it with two. First, in the GREP tab of find/change, you could search for ^.+?[?!.] and replace it with $0¶\r
    Then switch to the Text tab of find/change and search for ¶ and replace with a space character and also apply the paragraph style.

    (You don’t have to use ¶… you can use any weird character that you don’t use anywhere else.)

    The grep code just means “find the first sentence, up to a question mark, an exclamation point, or a period, followed by a space”

  • August 8, 2019 at 5:57 am #14324331
    Mattie Wells

    Participant

    Thank you! This is exactly what I’m trying to do. I will try it :)

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