Here's what I did since the string does not always include 3 digits before the colon and 3 after it, and this worked fine to find the proper ones and change them (one at a time).

In GREP “Find what:” <January(?= d+?:+?)

In GREP “Change to:” Januar

Now I'm trying to figure out how to record about 60 of these in one place. I have installed the

referred to here (https://creativepro.com/fin&#8230;..odness.php) and found here (https://www.kasyan.ho.com.ua/sc&#8230;..ories.html). I can see how it records the current parameters in the Find-Change dialog box to a text document called “findChangeStrings.txt”, but I haven't gotten the InDesign Script (that comes with ID CS4) called

FindChangeByList.jsx

to be able use what is saved in that file. I would assume the new text file with the intended Find-Change items saved by the RecordFindChange script should be saved maybe in the “Find Change Support” folder or where the original FindChangeList.txt file was. But I tried that and tried to run the FindChangeByList.jsx script, and nothing happened.

I also noted that the new text file still has some other stuff at the top for a text query. Maybe that must be deleted first? I tried that, but it also didn't work. Can there only be one FindChangeList.txt file? Does it have to have that name to run in the script? How should I save different txt files for this script and where should they be stored? How are they accessed?

Well, some of it's me. I left out a “d”, etc. But the forum won't let me type in a backslash – it deletes it. How do I?

Oops. Should have been a backslash before the less than symbol so it would be: <January(?= d+?:+?)

Thank you very much! I'll work on it and see if I can figure out how to do it.

Kind Regards,

Eric

Wow! You've encouraged me that it's possible!

However, I'm afraid it's going to take a while for me to catch on to this. I've never used scripts at all (in OS X or in InDesign), so I need to learn some things. I subscribe to lynda.com, so maybe I could watch some video on how to do scripts, etc. there. However, I don't see anything on CS4 and scripting there.

One thing that will make my use slightly more complicated is that it'd be best to check the text following the to-be-changed-text and see if it is followed by any number of digits (up to 3) , a colon and any number of digits (up to 3). If so, the change should be made; if not, it should not be made. I realize all that is possible, and now I see how ID intends for us to do it. But this seems rather daunting to me. I don't even know how to run the scripts :) I'd like to see a sample file of say all the English month names being converted to another language via script if and only if they are followed by a space and up to 3 digits and then a colon and up to 3 digits again. So “January 123:321” would be changed to “Januar 123:321”, but “January” alone would not be. Then I might be able to imitate what I need and use it.

Any idea where best on the web to learn the scripting I need? (I have lynda.com's ID Beyond the Basics DVD (by David Blatner), but it doesn't seem to have any scripting chapters in it.

Sincere thanks!

Wow! You've encouraged me that it's possible!

However, I'm afraid it's going to take a while for me to catch on to this. I've never used scripts at all (in OS X or in InDesign), so I need to learn some things. I subscribe to lynda.com, so maybe I could watch some video on how to do scripts, etc. there. However, I don't see anything on CS4 and scripting there.

One thing that will make my use slightly more complicated is that it'd be best to check the text following the to-be-changed-text and see if it is followed by any number of digits (up to 3) , a colon and any number of digits (up to 3). If so, the change should be made; if not, it should not be made. I realize all that is possible, and now I see how ID intends for us to do it. But this seems rather daunting to me. I don't even know how to run the scripts :) I'd like to see a sample file of say all the English month names being converted to another language via script if and only if they are followed by a space and up to 3 digits and then a colon and up to 3 digits again. So “January 123:321” would be changed to “Januar 123:321”, but “January” alone would not be. Then I might be able to imitate what I need and use it.

Any idea where best on the web to learn the scripting I need? (I have lynda.com's ID Beyond the Basics DVD (by David Blatner), but it doesn't seem to have any scripting chapters in it.

Sincere thanks!