You are right. So if you hide something the only way to get it back is to unhide everything that is hidden, including the things that have been hidden via the Layers palette. I would have thought that layers that were hidden would be different to items that were hidden via the Hide selection (command + 3) command. That’s a bit deadly.

Thanks for your help but still doesn’t seem to be working. I tried those three GREP ideas but they don’t cover every instance. You see sometime it will say something like:

Product name and description $12.00 • Made from a durable unobtanium™ Metal Frame® • Lightweight and folds flat for easy storage • choose from jute or black polyester bag $120.00 per 10 • Made in China. $12.00 ea.

Sometimes:

Product name and description $12.00 • Made from a durable unobtanium™ Metal Frame® • Lightweight and folds flat for easy storage. $12.00.

There may be many different ways for a price to appear within the body of the paragraph after the first bullet point.

EDIT: And, yes, you are right of course about the formatting of the second price. That is exactly the point. I want to be able to format the second price if I want to but just leave it unformatted if I choose to. I want the second price to only format if it has the word “per” as part of the price string. Getting that bit was easy the problem was that it was formatting even without the word “per” in it. The price always formats just like it does in the first instance. I thought it would have been an easy thing to work out but clearly not.

“This example is not the same as your original request.”

Yes Graham, you are right, the example isn’t the same as my first post but I just tried to keep it as simple as possible. I thought there would be some obvious way of finding only the first price in a paragraph.

I have tried those suggestions. They didn’t seem to work for me.

However, here is a link to an Imgur post that lays out the problem.

Applying GREP in Indesign

Is there a way of posting an image into these forum discussions?

Is there a logic to the second instance of the price?
If there is you can create a second GREP
Eg
First – set the format for the first number
(\$\S+)
Then – set this one to the NORMAL format so this over rides the above format
(\$\S+ ea)

Thanks for that suggestion Graham.

That is how I am getting around the problem at the moment but it just seems like an inelegant solution to me. I just thought there would be an easier way of doing it and that I must have been missing something that a GREP egg head would see straight away. There is no guarantee that there will always be a logic to the second price instance so there is the possibility that something could go wrong.

Right this is what I have done in the “Find and Replace” dialog.

Find:

(?<=\r\r)(^.{3,60}$)

This allows me to find a short paragraph which is preceded by two paragraph breaks (which is how I am indicating the start of a subhead in my raw text). In my style sheet box I have set “Body text” so it will ignore any heads which have set themselves automatically when I have used Object styling.

Replace:

$1

With style sheet set to “Subhead”.

I then go back at the end and replace my double paragraph breaks with single paragraph breaks.

Simples.

Thanks.

Working perfectly now. Must have been doing something wrong with GREP order.