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Select/add text to Empty cells with GREP

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    • February 23, 2015 at 4:50 am #73468
      Clement Aanestad
      Member

      Hi and help :-)

      Have a lots of tables with numbers, and some cells are empty (indicating 0)
      The empty cells only has “end of paragraph” showing when hidden characters is on.
      I want to add a “-” in the empty cells.
      Is it possible to make a GREP search for this?

      I can find “end of paragraph”, but how to only add “-” to the empty cells, keeping the cells containing numbers untouched?

      Best

    • February 23, 2015 at 7:16 am #73469
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      You can search for ^\z (caret backslash z) to find an empty cell. But the Change doesn’t appear to work. Not sure why. Bug?

      Oh yes, this is a bug. I find an empty cell and then I press an arrow key on the keyboard and it moves the whole text frame! That is bad. Very weird.

      –david b.

    • February 23, 2015 at 7:34 am #73470
      Clement Aanestad
      Member

      Thanks, almost there.

      The Change works if I put in “Found text” and then -.
      Change all, the one I am after, replies with zero changes though…

      Clement

    • February 23, 2015 at 10:13 am #73474
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Wow. You’re right. Change and Change/Find works, but not Change All.

    • April 27, 2015 at 7:15 am #75000
      Masood Ahmad
      Participant

      Well… it is really a bug. I tried this in CS5 and CS6, but failed. However, it worked in CC14. Although the Change All isn’t working.

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