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Carey Martin
MemberNot a reply, but need some help. I have no idea where this character came from, not sure if imported from Word/Excel?? but it is not listed on the hidden characters list for ID. Looks just like a colon with square dots. Can supply a screen shot in zoom mode. e.g. 9:mo when CTRL+I turned on.
I want to get rid of it and replace with none, but ID is not recognising it as a character to find. Story editor just gives me the character that is the box with the X that means ‘I don’t know what this is’. This character is appearing between a number and some text. It is not one of the ID white space symbols.
November 14, 2018 at 3:54 pm in reply to: Mapping styles from one ID file to another ID file #111592MemberI think I know why it did not work. To keep my templates separate I name a group and put them in there. So while the style names might be the same, the group name is not. Will try next time I move stuff across.
November 14, 2018 at 2:56 pm in reply to: Mapping styles from one ID file to another ID file #111591MemberThanks Claudio, but it isn’t happening that way. I tried that first. Any ideas why this is not happening?
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MemberThanks for the suggestions Colin and Michel. Question for Michel, do all text frames have to be threaded for the auto numbering to work? It seems OK for the figures, just the tables have gone all wacky.
MemberI don’t need anything as complex (to me) as a GREP. I just want to search for the end of story marker because that’s what appears in a table cell and will appear immediately after what I’m searching for.
What I’m attempting to do is find every instance of ’till’ in a document with a particular style, and replace it with ’tillering’. So what I need, but what InDesign does not supply in the @ break characters is the end of story marker (#).
Neither \z nor \Z is working in the find field and surely it should be that simple?
MemberHI Rhiannon, you might think this a dumb question, but now I’ve downloaded the items and put them into the plug in folder, how do I install them and see them when using InDesign?
I’m used to using the basics, not all these helpful extra things. I’ve wanted a simple way to unthread two frames for ever. I have no idea why it is not simpler.
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Carey
October 13, 2016 at 7:59 pm in reply to: Table will not automatically break to flow to the next frame #89026MemberI have found that the merged columns cause the issue. I cannot remember my solution, but it was a manual fixit something like just making a new row in the next frame and putting the data in from there.
MemberHi there, following on from the issue above I have a similar one where I regularly rename the file as I work on it each day, just in case our server fails as it did last year and we all lost a month of work (don’t ask!).
When I check in the InDesign file, right click on the link, choose edit hyperlink, choose go to destination, it works, but still has the red dot. And when exported the hyperlink works just fine in the pdf.
Asking it to refresh changes nothing.
Even going to edit the hyperlink, selecting none from the list of links, changing it to not shared link (never really understood what this does or its usefulness), then reapplying the link (copying and pasting from the URL of the website) still leaves it as a red dot.
Guidance here would be appreciated.
since they work I am inclined to leave them as is, but it bugs me that I cannot make it work and have green dots.
Thanks, Carey
MemberUpdate from a colleague: the handy menu options works if I turn everything off in the header and footer dialogue box: no header row and no skip first.
So problem solved. It seems I was given a bit of a bum steer in the first place, but now can fix all. One at a time.
MemberHi, thanks David I did read that. However, for accessibility, it only passes the check in pdf if ‘skip first’ is not ticked! So my current workaround is to go back over all 70 tables in the book and go into the headers options, untick skip first, click ok, which puts an extra row of header 1 cells above my heading, copy and paste the column titles into the top row and then delete the original header row.
And here’s a really curly one: if I use the handy menu at the top right hand of the screen next to the lightning strike to make a header row, it disappears the whole thing!
So, to do the first lot of stuff I started looking at scripting and just glazed over. I wish InDesign had an actions panel like PhotoShop. That is the best thing ever. Scripting will have to wait; I’ve got 70 tables to fix pronto.
Carey
MemberSorry, forgot to add that I have to have repeating headers for accessibility as well. … carey
Memberanother deletion, just found how to sort the hyperlinks by page BUT again, not listed in the options in the panel. Needs to be there as well as a little icon in the panel.
Thanks, Carey
MemberA deletion and addition:
Found how to do the shortcut keystroke for rotate and clearing rotation, BUT finding it under pages instead of in the View tab was just luck. So, it would be nice of Adobe to organise stuff under the heading it appears on the InDesign screen.
And can we add the option to sort hyperlinks by the order in which they appear in the document please.
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Carey
MemberCould we add shortcut keystrokes for the options in rotating and clearing rotation please.
And a way to just separate two stories that got linked without using the existing scripts that very nicely separate everything and then you can put it back together. I just want to ‘snip’ a thread in a finished book (printing now) that I am readying for an accessible pdf where two chapters inadvertently were linked. The rest of the material is complex (large multiple page tables and all sorts) so I don’t want to have to redo that work.
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Carey
MemberThis is exactly what I want (change wildcard digitmo to wildcard digitm. But I am a GREP virgin. I found the grep tab on the find/change box, entered what I needed in the fine what, but how do I enter the new text into the change to bit? I’m going to need this a lot as I am working through dozens of tables making this change.
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