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David BlatnerWell, just to be clear, you could use ^[^"]*blah which means “from the beginning of the paragraph up to the word blah, but only if there is no quote mark.” But that doesn’t find just the word “blah” — it finds the whole enchilada.
David BlatnerNot that I know of.
David BlatnerYes, the positive look-behind cannot function with an ambiguous number of characters. It has to be a specific string. There are other ways of doing this though. In InDesign Magazine issue 73, Peter Kahrel explained the \K grep command, which Adobe added in CS6. So this will find the word blah that shows up after a quote mark (and with or without additional text between the quote and the world blah):
".*\Kblah
David BlatnerOr just rewrite all the text to say:
She said, pouting, “Would you like that?”
or just
She glared at him. “Would you like that?”
(some writers would say if you need to specify who is talking with a pronoun then something is wrong.)
(I’m half kidding.)
David BlatnerI believe (but am not entirely sure) that the numbering order is based on the order that you created the frames on the page. Try to copy and paste the frames in the right order.
Another possibility: have tried the Articles panel?
David BlatnerDo you want the same postcard 3 times on a sheet? Or do you have data record 1, 2, and 3 on the first sheet, and so on. If the latter, then that’s what Data Merge does already.
Steve discussed this a little bit in his series on Data Merge… here’s part 3: https://creativepro.com/data-merging-part-3.php
I cover it in detail in my title on data merge at lynda.com.
David BlatnerI don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone complain about it before. So not very common. I usually encourage people to do this kind of work in Word and then place the file as clean as possible into ID.
David BlatnerWell, you need to find some kind of distinct pattern. A single space will be almost impossible to identify. Multiple spaces or multiple tabs can be cleaned up more easily. (See the pop-up menu at the top of the find/change dialog box.)
David BlatnerYou can’t really specify a particular percentage when importing using data merge. You can only use the Fitting features (Fill Proportionally, etc.).
David BlatnerInteresting problem! I can’t think of any way of altering that behavior in InDesign itself. I wonder if Mindsteam’s spell or grammar checker would be better? https://www.mindsteam.com/products/mindgrammar/index.html
David BlatnerInstead of reapplying the master page, try choosing Remove All Local Overrides in the pages panel menu.
David BlatnerAs long as they have their own paragraph or character style applied to them, you can make a text variable that “points” to them.
David BlatnerSounds like you need text variables:
https://creativepro.com/live-captions-text-variables.php
and
https://creativepro.com/secret-life-of-character-styles-and-running-headers.php
David BlatnerSorry, Holly! Sometimes our forum does that… I had to go in and give it a nudge. :-)
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