What sort of notes are you talking about, exactly? (a) Footnotes; (b) InDesign Notes (showing the lil' triangly thingys); (c) your own personal notes, which InDesign carelessly considers “plain text”?

… Export as RTF? Not sure if PP can import that.

Seen it once too often, and send that file (with the ID result) to Adobe tech support. I explained that text was cut off and appeared at the end of the document. Their reply (after a couple o'weeks): “Oh, that's because the margins in Word are different than those of your ID document. You can't expect every paragraph to be broken the same.”

That caused a loud “D'oh!” to reverb to the jongware office.

I re-submitted it, telling them to take a closer look, and haven't heard back since.

By the way, re-saving the file from Word, as regular DOC, as RTF, or as DOCX sometimes works. In case it doesn't, I still have a CS3 nearby, and in every case so far that imported a troublesome document flawless.

Erick, no harm done, except it might get hard to have four people (five now) speaking through eachother on not-too related topics …

Yikes, Eugene! That'll eat the middle digits right out of “12-34 mm”! Let's see. “24 – 105mm” or “70-200 mm” to “70-200mm”. Digits, some optional spaces, and a hyphen. Well, you were on the right track, but your previous efforts used the 'any' character, removing it as-you-went, no matter what it was. All it takes is a precise copy of the format, with question marks making the spaces optional:

(d) ?- ?(d+) ?mm

— replacing with

$1-$2mm

I prefer to use as much lookbehind and lookahead as possible, as (I think) it's faster to change as less as possible, but here I might get a bit less obvious:

(?<=d) ?- ?(d+) ?(?=mm)

— replacing with

-$1

A quick GREP primer: One-or-more is +. Any character is . so it's not a good idea to use this … Put a ackslash before it to make it literal: \. That makes the search expression

\.+

and you should replace it with a simple tab:

Now hold on before you run off: that one-or-more means that a single period will also be replaced by a tab. I bet that's not what you had in mind, so let's make sure it only works with, say, 3 or more. This, instead, would work

\.\.\.+

but you can go for a fancy notation as well:

\.{3,}

No need for a plus! The {3,} part means: at least three times and an unlimited max (as there is no number given). (Some useful variants could be {3} to only find sets of 3 periods, or {3,5} to only find sets of 3, 4, and 5 periods.)

(Erick, why not simply create a new thread?)

With lookbehind, search for:

(?<=\d)~}

replace with

~”

… whoa! I cannot copy and paste that expression to here! Something about InDesign or the Mac OS clipboard converts the grep expression to a bunch of white spaces!…

Surprise, surprise! It's an Adobe thingy — it works the same on Windows. I bet it was some smarty pants programmer's Finest Hour, since it means if you use copy-and-paste between an ID document and the regular Find box or the GREP Find box it automagically translates any special character into the correct shortcut representation. (Try it: copy some special characters from your text into the Find box — here they become the circumflex thingies — and then paste them into the GREP box — they'll translate to tilde-something something.) And yes, it is a bit annoying if you try to copy something out of InDesign …

JC, I'm having a hard time imagining s did not work at all in CS3. I'm pretty sure I've used it a few times. By the way, I recommend to not use it! I found its habit of also including the paragraph return totally unacceptable, so for just spaces, I use the slightly longer expression

[ ~s~S~<~>]

(and perhaps a couple more). The longer expression is not a problem because that's what “Save Search” is for :-D

… whoa! I cannot copy and paste that expression to here! Something about InDesign or the Mac OS clipboard converts the grep expression to a bunch of white spaces!…

Surprise, surprise! It's an Adobe thingy — it works the same on Windows. I bet it was some smarty pants programmer's Finest Hour, since it means if you use copy-and-paste between an ID document and the regular Find box or the GREP Find box it automagically translates any special character into the correct shortcut representation. (Try it: copy some special characters from your text into the Find box — here they become the circumflex thingies — and then paste them into the GREP box — they'll translate to tilde-something something.) And yes, it is a bit annoying if you try to copy something out of InDesign …

JC, I'm having a hard time imagining did not work at all in CS3. I'm pretty sure I've used it a few times. By the way, I recommend to not use it! I found its habit of also including the paragraph return totally unacceptable, so for just spaces, I use the slightly longer expression

[ ~s~S~<~>]

(and perhaps a couple more). The longer expression is not a problem because that's what “Save Search” is for :-D