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• • May 18, 2016 at 5:23 am #84979
    Doug Arnold

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    5.18.2016

    Hello, all.

    I have a huge project that involves Microsoft Word tables. I’ve imported them all into InDesign; but, a majority of the cells have paragraph markers preceding the actual content.

    Does anyone know a way to delete paragraph/forced line break markers at the beginning of table cells using find/change or GREP?

    Thank you!
    Doug Arnold

  • May 18, 2016 at 6:23 am #84991
    Matt Isaac

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    Find: ^\r Finds any paragraph marker at the start of a paragraph.
    Leave the Change to: blank and change. However, If you use double returns for spacing this will remove the extra returns.

  • May 18, 2016 at 6:43 am #84992
    Doug Arnold

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    Thank you most kindly, Skemicle!

    Peace,
    Doug

  • May 18, 2016 at 7:01 am #84993
    Doug Arnold

    Member

    One more question:

    How does one remove ¶ from before the End of Story octothorpe character?

    Thank you!
    Doug

    • May 18, 2016 at 8:32 am #84994
      Matt Isaac

      Participant

      There is actually a pre-made query for this called “Remove Trailing Whitespace. It removes any white space at the end of a paragraph.
      When you select the query it shows +$

      • The+looks for any white space character one or more times.
      • The $looks for the end of a paragraph

      .

      So this query expression would read “find one or more white space characters followed by the end of a paragraph.”

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