It’s very odd, I think it must be something caused by the file being created in CC and saved out as am idml file and then opened in CS6. I’m pretty certain it’s override highlighting as it only appears when I overrride a paragraph or character style.

The highlighting is in two forms, a red vertical block at the side of any affected paragraphs and a rid strikethrough behind any affected text.

OMG!!! That is seriously amazing, thank you so, so, so much!! :)

This will make a job which is normally a massive, massive chore into something which will take just a few minutes!

I really must have a look into scripting and see if I can get my head around it because it is clearly a potential huge time saver!

That’s a good point re the indent to here markers, I put those in quickly when I did a find and replace on the raw text I get from the database (which has a symbol instead of tab markers as it can’t export tab markers), Didn’t even occur to me to use indents and first line indents to achieve the same thing, though I have used exactly those in similar situations in the past.

Hi All

Thanks for the help, I posted the thread then was off ill for a couple of days then on holiday and forgot all about it. I’m back at work now and have given both methods a try. The script doesn’t seem to do anything? I’ve put it into my script folder and tried running it but nothing happens? Am I doing something wrong?

Kai: the manual method works perfectly thank you!! It will save me so much time next time I put one of these diaries together! Might you be able to explain what each of the find bits are actually doing/ looking for as I don’t really understand it and I would like to get my head round it so in future I might have a bit more of a clue.

Also, a bit cheeky, but is there also a way to use a find/change to find where I have the week numbers next to the Monday entries to make them the correct character style (week number) but to also have it change for the number that follows the word week?

Thanks again.

I’m open to that..though Again it’s not something I’ve used before so any tips on how to achieve it would be most welcome! :)

I've just put together a test file with four lines a,, drawn using the Line Tool and set to a stroke width of 2pt, then set to dotted, Japanese Dotted, Dash ( 3 and 2) and Dash (4 and 4)

The dashed lines printed out as they should, both dotted lines printed one dot, then a solid line then a final dot at the end.

Exporting a pdf, gives me perfect dotted lines on screen and when printed…also perfect dotted lines!

Having had a bit more of a play with the character styles I can see now that I can merely specify that text should be 'bold' in the character styles sxetup, I thought I had to choose the font etc as well.

This makes life a little easier, though I still think it could be useful to allow character styles to be based on paragraph styles too.

I should probably expand on my post really, when I say I put it together as one docuemtn, what I mean is, the final piece goes as one document, while I'm putting it together I have separate files for each section, and then when it's 99% finished I compile it all into one document, would that work ok with InDesign too?