Luky,

I downloaded the namechanger app, but I can’t figure out how to make it work correctly. I drag the files I want to rename to the app, and then select the drop down menu options, but I’m not sure what options I need to use.

I need to change all the files with the .P02 to the even page numbers, and .P03 to the odd page numbers. Can this be done with this app? If so, what parameters do I need to use in the app?

Justin,

Thanks, I was able to figure out how to use the GREP Find/Replace to get the Shift-Tab inserted before the $ in a paragraph. Not sure I did it the best way, but it seems to be working with Find/Replace. I was REALLY hoping there was a way to put that Shift-Tab into a GREP statement inside a paragraph style or nested style, but I’m not seeing a way to do it. I’m all about automating as much formatting as possible.

Thanks for the reply though.

No, it’s doing it globally. Doesn’t matter what file I open to export, I always have those 2 options in the Range field.

Couple more questions.

My success with the size range was done using a combination of Grep and nested character styles in a paragraph style. I basically combined Barcode_CZ’s and Masood’s GREP code with Dwayne/Anne’s Nested styles.

I’m curious to know if there is a way to to use Barcode_CZ’s code to find all sizes that are 1X, 2X, 3X, etc. instead of typing them all out one by one, like in Masood’s response? I can type in as many sizes as necessary as long as they are letters, but as soon as it gets to a Number/Letter it doesn’t format it automatically.

So for example – using Barcode_CZ’s GREP code will format all the size letters in Bold. It doesn’t matter if I add sizes or not, as soon as I put in parenthesis, it formats correctly!!
Misses Petite: MPXS(8-10), MPXS(8-10), MPXS(8-10), MPXS(8-10), MPXS(8-10) $29.99
Petite: PXS(8-10), PXS(8-10), PXS(8-10), PXS(8-10), PXS(8-10) $29.99

But when it gets to the women’s sizes – Barcode_CZ’s code doesn’t work. This is where I typed in Masood’s GREP code 5 times, but as soon as I go to 6X(size-size) it doesn’t format because I didn’t go that high in the GREP.
Women’s: 1X(4-6), 2X(8-10), 3X(12-14), 4X(16-18), 5X(20-22) $34.99

Can Barcode_CZ’s be modified to format the 1X (letter/digit) as well?

The next thing I’m running into is that our shoes have a different size format than the clothes. Our shoes look like this format:
N 7-10, 11; M 6-10, 11, 12 $39.99
W 61?2-10, 11, 12; WW 61/2-10 $45.99

The Letters in the above example need to be bold/font, and the numbers normal/different font. I got it working by playing around with GREP paragraph styles. I just applied the size character style to [l\u] which seems to work, until I type in a lower case letter or parenthesis. Sometimes we have shoe sizes that look like this:

WWWW(EEEE) 7-12, 13. or more letters. If I use caps the letters are bold but the parenthesis are not. Lower case letters are not bolded either.

What do I need to adjust in my GREP code for that to work?

Thanks
Scott

@Dwayne – Sorry, I probably wasn’t explaining myself correctly. I created all the character/paragraph styles in Indesign…and then typed out a paragraph of copy and applied all the styles to the correct sections of my paragraph just to see if all the styles worked. They did. So if I had a style named “LEAD-IN” I would highlight the lead-in and then click on the character style to format it. This all worked for the most part. That’s what i meant by I manually formatted it. The only paragraph style I created was the one that turned my size letters bold. Everything else uses a character style. When I highlight all the sizes and their size ranges and click on the paragraph style, it formats them correctly.

All of the different pieces of of the paragraph are in separate fields in the database and I can assign a different style to each section so my copy comes from the database into Indesign correctly formatted. Alas, I’m having issues with that, but I have a meeting to day with tech support to see why my database is bringing in other character styles that I have not assigned to the copy. Hopefully once that issue is resolved, my copy will come in correctly.

@Masood – Thanks for the help. If I can’t get my database to format correctly, I’ll have to format the size letters manually…..can I use the Grep above to do that?

Yes, I believe I did that initially when formatting the size range. I then read that Local Formatting > Character Styles > Paragraph styles. :) So if you apply a character style to text, and then try to apply a paragraph style to text, it won’t work….is that correct? And after all these years of using Indesign, I just learned something new. :)

Needless to say I finally manually applied all my character styles and paragraph style to the copy and it looks correct. Not sure that bringing copy in from the database to indesign will end up with the same results since I can only apply one style to a section of copy in the database…I think. That is an experiment for tomorrow though.

Ok, so I created:

Character Style that just has my font treatment: Font, Size, color, bold.

Then I created a paragraph style that was just the default style except for the nested character style information:

Paragraph style was:
1. None through one space (put the space in the “word” field)
2. Bold up to open parenthesis

A. Repeated steps 1 & 2 5 times to compensate for the amount of sizes we carry
B. Created a test paragraph of info on a blank page using only single named sizes (i.e. Petites, Women’s, Misses.)
C. Highlighted the paragraph and applied the Paragraph style….

….worked great!!!

I did try the same paragraph test with two word size names (Petite Short, Women’s Tall) and I do run into the issue Anne-Marie mentioned. The second word changes to use the character style of “Bold”. I don’t think this will be an issue since the “Size Name” field in the database has its own character style assigned to it, and the “Size Range” is going to be using the paragraph style above assigned to it.

Thanks for the help Anne and Dwayne. Hopefully my database will play nice and this will be easy. haha.