If you need someone to test it, I’m happy to oblige.

In a regular GREP, you can combine words as an OR expression with the vertical bar. So, for example, you could use just one GREP style for [and|but|or|for]. I have not tested this but it seems like it ought to work in this case.

The expression above will remove ALL parenthetical expressions from your text. Is that what you want?

You could narrow it down to just finding sets of dimensions using centimeters by changing it to \((\d+ x \d+ cm)\) – but this won’t find fractions or decimal percentages. However, there are ways to do all of those as well, so it’s just a matter of how specific you need to be or how general you can get away with being.

Something to try (It works, but may not be what you need):

1. Create a new document.
2. On the master page, put a text box for the backwards number (could be within the ticket art)
3. Click on the flip horizontal button so the page # box is mirrored.
4. Add pages to the document.
5. Create the numbers in Excel, then save the column as a text file and place the text file into Indesign, one # per page or per ticket. Since the master text frame is flipped horizontally, all the text that is placed will be flipped on each page.
6. To get the #s to be only one per page, you can change all the paragraph returns to Column Breaks. You could run several ticket on a page, or one page per ticket. Should work either way.

I tried the idea of having the page #s be your ticket #s, and this works, but you are limited to 6 digits. There are options for using prefixes and text variables that might help with that, but I think generating the #s in Excel is probably easier.

It’s not a great solution, but you could make a series of paragraph styles with different settings and apply them based on how many items you had in the column. If it were only a few variations, and a short document, this might be a viable approach.

Alternately, you could have a separate paragraph that is blank, following the price, and that is the one that has the rule style applied to it. Either just a return, or, if that will mess up your QA, you could have a special character such as an em space or any of the fixed white space characters, so you don’t see two returns in a row when doing QA checking. Not sure if that will give you the desired result. But I don’t know of any “proportional” scaling option in the paragraph rules dialog.

Ah – yes, I see I missed that “mirror” part. So, you just select the text box and click “flip horizontal”.

If it needs to be anchored in other text, you anchor a flipped text box.

Hi – sounds like this is related to the problem I was having with Tracked Changes coming in from Word .docx files. See this article:

https://creativepro.com/clearing-word-track-changes-markup-indesign.php

Check your Import Options when you place the text. What settings are you using? Are you stripping formats and keeping only local formatting? Make sure any buttons are turned off that you don’t want, such as track changes, even in the sections that are greyed out. Apparently, the XML format of a .docx file stores the formatting info in a different way than in a .doc file so it still gets through Indesign’s import filter.

So, adjust your Import Options and try again until it works. And let me know what happens!

Jaime,
The problem is that you are finding both sets of the English text, so that when you apply formatting to what you find, you apply that to everything. You could be using a positive look behind command to find only the Spanish text, but then it won’t have the English text to replace it with.

Without seeing your document, it looks like this may require a multi-step process to isolate the Spanish text, because if there is only one return between each set of paragraphs, and they just alternate, Find/Change may not be able to tell which ones to trap and which to ignore. Is there anything unique about the Spanish? Sounds like it has unique formatting – if you can search for that and apply a unique paragraph style to it, that would be a good start.

Then, you can find all of the Spanish and add something unique before it, such as ???, then you could do the (.+)\r???(.+) and replace with $1\r???$1 (replace what would be $2 with $1. Then you could reapply the Translation paragraph style to all paragraphs that begin with ???, and then remove all of the ???.

Again, without seeing your document, this is an approximation, but the idea is that you need to do something to make the Spanish text unique so that you can replace it.