This one seems to work: ^.+(?<!https):

The spaces that you see between the left edge of the text frame and the first characters of the two paragraph (the B and the F) are the left sidebearings of the characters: that space is part of the character the way it’s defined in the font. Therefore you can’t use left indent or whatever. The only way to get align the visible part of the letters at the frame’s edge is to insert an innocent and invisible character such as a discretionary hyphen before the first letter and apply kerning between the two. You can automate that, see

https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/kern.html#kern_first_character

P.

Just for the record: Edward discovered that it was a problem with InDesign’s preferences. After deleting them the scripts worked as expected.

File received in good order, thank you. After I opened the book and all its documents (apart from the first two, which shouldn’t change) I ran the one-line script and all documents were renumbered correctly. I’ll send a screenshot of the before and after books to your email, I can’t attach it here. You did you open the documents, did you not?

P.

I can’t imagine that corruption plays a role. If any of your documents were corrupt, InDesign wouldn’t be able to open it or if it did, would probably crash.

If you zip up your files and send then to pkahrel@gmail.com I’ll have a look.

P.

But the one you’ve been using changes the documents to number automatically… You are using this one, correct?

app.documents.everyItem().sections[0].continueNumbering = true;

And it’s the page numbers that should be targeted, not any other type of numbering — correct?

P.

By the way, Edward, coming back to your earlier query about saving documents: the script only changes the setting in the Numbering & Section Options window, nothing else. You need to save all the documents yourself.

P.