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• • January 21, 2010 at 6:34 am #54571
    seaner7633

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    I'd like to find a script that I can run on our catalog, that will create a spreadsheet listing all the item numbers, and the page number the item falls on.

    With the amount of pages produced by various freelancers and co-workers, I can't be certain that they always used the character style I defined for item numbers, and didn't just set the attributes to match the style.

    For that reason, the search would need to be for specific attributes, like font, point size, color, and bold.

    Our part numbers vary in length and composition, with some being numbers only, and others numbers and letters. Some item numbers have hyphens.

  • January 21, 2010 at 7:05 am #54572
    David Blatner

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    I wonder if you could use the IndexMatic script to do this, based on a GREP expression.

  • January 22, 2010 at 8:14 am #54596
    seaner7633

    Member

    I read through the IndexMatic posting, and downloaded it.

    Where do I enter a GREP expression?

  • January 22, 2010 at 8:55 am #54598
    Anonymous

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    Isn't there a way you can give the Text Frame an Object Style – and have the Object Style invoke the Paragraph Style

    So if you create an object style and make the para style for the object style be MY NUMBERS

    Then when the designers send the stuff in from the template you supply, you can search for Objects

    Find: for the Object Style you created

    Change to: the object style you created

    That should make the Text Frame invoke the Paragraph style

    Does that work – if it doesn't make any sense I'll try again ;D

  • January 22, 2010 at 9:24 am #54599
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    sorry, I think I had a brain blip; indexmatic won't let you index by grep. However, you could use Find/Change to apply a character style (use a character style that does nothing, applies no formatting, perhaps) to all the text using GREP. Then indexmatic could find text tagged with those styles.

  • January 25, 2010 at 7:36 am #54640
    seaner7633

    Member

    Eugene: I'll look into that for next years book. Thanks for the suggestion!

    David: I tried a version of what you suggested, and it seemed to work. I created a character style “item#”, and the only attribute I set was color (black). I did a Find/Replace, using Find Format for any word (or group of numbers) with the specific font, bold, size and color that I use for every item number, and made the Change Format the character style “item#”.

    I then ran the IndexMatic script, having it look for the item# style.

    I created a new document and copied one spread over from the catalog file to test this out. The spread contains 27 item numbers, and IndexMatic gave me a list of 27, so it looks like I've got what I need.

    Thanks for the help!!!

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