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• • July 7, 2012 at 5:14 am #62568
    Gert Verrept

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    I very often have to change a word (mostly the famous 3 dots – alt0133) into another word, but never the same.

    Exemple: article … where … will become 12 or 45 or 5 etc.

    I'm looking for a script that does a “real time” F&C. It lets you search for a word, select in the text so you can change it and directly moves to the next case, without having to reenter the string again.

    It can be done in “Word”, but since we work in Indesign (cs5.5 win 7), we cannot use the export to and import again option

    g.

  • July 7, 2012 at 5:24 am #62569
    Theunis De Jong

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    There is a hotkey combo for Find Next — I think that's all you need here :)

  • July 7, 2012 at 6:20 am #62570
    Gert Verrept

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    Not quite, you cannot type anything in the text frame, you allways have to type in it the change field. This works fine for a few changes, but for several dozens of changes on hundred or more pages it's far too slow.

    g.

  • July 7, 2012 at 9:55 am #62571
    Theunis De Jong

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    So you don't want to search for the same text again? Sorry, I thought it was just your three dots.

    Scripts are horrible for “interactive” stuff — doing something, awaiting user input in the background, then continuing. I can't visualise something that would work better than the normal find & change.

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