In this week’s InDesignSecrets video, Erica Gamet uses the power of the Find/Change dialog box to assign styles to formatted text. Whether you have imported text—or added local formatting within InDesign—it’s a snap to assign character styles automatically.
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This article was last modified on July 25, 2019
This article was first published on January 8, 2019
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As with so much of InDesign, Michel, there’s often a way to script a manual process and probably someone who has already done it. That’s why we have an entire section of the site devoted to scripts and plug-ins: https://creativepro.com/resources/plug-ins-and-scripts. I believe we’ve even written up or mentioned Jongware’s PrepText script a couple of times. He’s certainly no stranger to us here on InDesignSecrets.
I noticed that too, Chris. It should not have reflowed.
Nicely done, future-proofing the text against later design changes.
But can I ask why did the text reflow once you came out of the dialog box? Surely changing local bold to character style bold should result in no visible change on the page?
Thanks,
Chris
Sorry I am just seeing this now. I just went and looked at the video…and the jump you see is actually a jump in the editing. Behind the scenes tip: Sometimes we mess up and we have to edit out the bad bits…haha. If you look, the tools also change…so it was just a quick edit. If you use this method, you are right, there shouldn’t be a change in your formatting (unless the style contains other formatting, such as tracking differences, etc.). GOOD CATCH!