Mark,

It might be possible that your Hyperlinks Character Style has been applied to more than just the desired links.

Consider trying the following:

1. Backup your existing document

2. Select all of the links within your Hyperlinks Pallet and click the delete icon.

3. With no text selected, go to your Character Style pallet and select the Hyperlinks character style. Click the delete icon. Uncheck the preserve format option and select “None” for the replacement style.

4. Ensure no text is currently selected and recreate your Hyperlinks Character Style. To begin with, I would set the color to something that stands our (e.g., magenta) Do not select “No Break” yet.

5. Select Convert URLs to Hyperlinks in the upper right hand corner. Ensure that you select the scope of the search set to Document. In addition, check the Apply Character Style box and select your newly created Hyperlinks Character Style.

6. Select Change All

7. Scan the document to see if your links have been identified and if they have the bright color you selected in step 4.

8. Ensure no text is selected, open the Hyperlinks Character Style and add the “No Break”.

This should do the trick. It will strip out all instances of your hyperlinks character style where it may have been inadvertently applied and then use the hyperlinks pallet to automate the process of styling all of the links.

Caitlin,

We might need some more information with regard to your project. Are you asking about a way to have different people (without InDesign) provide content for these pop ups during the production of the document? As in, you want a bio or description for each cubical/person and you would like them to contribute their own content?

Or are you talking about after your PDF have been produced?

John,

Interesting that the aforementioned Grep Style did not work for you.

Grep Style
(?<!)^
With an associated character style set to “All Caps”

This will look for a lower case letter that occurs at the beginning of a paragraph but not immediately after a forced line break.

It gave it a try and it works on my end. If you would like to provide a link to a sample indesign file, I can try to determine the problem.

In regard to your second question, I believe you need to use a second grep style.

Grep Style
(www|http)
With an associated character style with “Normal” set in regard to case.

This Grep style should be after the previous one we discussed.

Using these type Grep Styles we are capitalizing the first letter in each bullet and then the second style applies normal case to www and http.

Teri,

Glad to help!

Christophe,

Assuming a few things:
1. Currencies are whole numbers.
2. There are no spaces after the “?” in your international version (In your example, US?$65 CA?$80 have no space but EU €70 does. Was this intentional or did the forum adjust your post automatically.)

Grep Find:
(US\?|CA\?|EU )(\$|€)(\d+)

Change to:
$3$2 $1

We are asking InDesign to:
1. Find “US?”, “CA?”, or “EU ” and set as variable “$1”; find a “$” or “€” and set as variable “$2”; and find one or more consecutive digits and set as variable “$3”
2. Paste variable “$3” followed by “$2″ followed by a space and then” $1″

() Items within parentheses are sub-expressions and can be used as variables within the Change to. If you find (Red)(Blue)(Green) $1 is “Red” $2 is “Blue” and $3 is “Green”.

? and $ are functions used by grep so to look for actual characters, you need to escape them using a backslash “\”

\d indicates a digit
+ indicates one or more of the previous.

tbone,

Depending on how these documents are reduced in size, you may notice issues with vector artwork that contains thin lines. Sometimes these lines are dropped and some times they are converted to the smallest printable width.

Pay close attention to the digital proof.

In addition to Kelly’s comment in regard to embedding PDFs, you could also embed the actual InDesign file. That way, if you made a change to the original InDesign file, you could easily update it within the links panel without exporting to PDF.

Masood,

Good catch. I forgot to mention that the Grep Find/Replace cannot complete the process in one instance. You need to keep pressing Replace All until no matches are found.

Your suggestion for Grep Find/Replace with the style works. However, it will not pick up numbers at the end of a paragraph. I would have assumed that using a $ in lieu of \D would do the trick but it does not work. Im not sure how to handle that situation.

Thanks for the response in regard to the adding space in the opposite direction.

Hans,

If your numbers included a decimal place or more specifically a period, you could use a Grep Style to take care of the issue. The expression would be:
\d(?=(\d\d\d)+\D)
The associated character style controls the space between through “tracking”. Setting it to 150 or 200 should suffice.
This expression is saying, Look for a single digit that has one or more three digits groups followed by anything but a digit (e.g, a period). Using \D would allow it to pick up on line breaks and allow you to style whole numbers outside of tables when these numbers are immediately followed by a line break.

Else, you will need to use a Grep Find/Replace. The following expression will find the numbers:
Grep Find:
(?<=\d)\d\d\d(?!\d)

Grep Replace:
$0 There is a space before the $

One of these came from jongware. I don’t remember which.