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Find Text in FootNotes only

May 15, 2012 12:32 PM

hi all, i work with CS5 Indesign and i'd know if there's a way or GREP expression to find text only in footnotes not in the main document. Open the find/replace window you can search in main document including footnotes but not the reverse.

Thank you

934 Views   11 Replies   Latest reply: walker85, May 28, 2012 8:05 AM
 
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  • [Jongware]
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    1. [Jongware],
    May 15, 2012 12:55 PM   in reply to walker85
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    Do you have a unique style assigned to your 'notes?

     
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  • walker85
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    2. walker85,
    May 16, 2012 12:22 AM   in reply to [Jongware]
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    thank for your answer, yes i have a style only for the notes

     
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    3. [Jongware],
    May 16, 2012 1:13 AM   in reply to walker85
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    Then you are good to go. Just make sure to specify this style in the Find Formatting box in the Find/Change dialog (you might have to press the "More Options" button to see this).

     

    "Footnotes" were added in CS2, and so was the option to exclude them from searching, but FIVE FULL versions later nothing -- nothing at all -- has changed since then. Somehow that led me to think I was the only one using them, ever. Glad to see I'm not!

     
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    4. walker85,
    May 17, 2012 7:59 AM   in reply to [Jongware]
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    yes thank you this way is useful and do you also know the javascript command that do what i asked? i have this script and i want add the filter of style in the search.

    thank you very much again

     

    //Clear the find/change preferences.

    app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;

    app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;

    //Set the find options.

    app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeFootnotes = true;

    app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeHiddenLayers = false;

    app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeLockedLayersForFind = false;

    app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeLockedStoriesForFind = false;

    app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeMasterPages = false;

     
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  • [Jongware]
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    5. [Jongware],
    May 17, 2012 8:52 AM   in reply to walker85
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    Your lucky day, indeed I do know. Check out

     

    http://jongware.mit.edu/idcsjs5.5/pc_FindGrepPreference.html#appliedPa ragraphStyle

     
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    6. Eugene Tyson,
    May 17, 2012 9:01 AM   in reply to [Jongware]
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    If you want to you can join the crusade http://forums.adobe.com/message/4273963#4273963

     

    It's the feature request forum - that seems to go largely ignored.

     

    But the more people the better I suppose.

     

    Losing all faith in Adobe's interest in upgrading this feature.

     
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  • walker85
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    7. walker85,
    May 25, 2012 6:13 AM   in reply to [Jongware]
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    yes i read the javadoc for the methods but i am not very strong in javascript but i would try, my style for the footnotes is called "Footnotes Style" in order to set the option for the search in the script the command is

     

    app.findGrepPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = "Footnotes Style";

     

    or

     

    app.findGrepPreferences = appliedParagraphStyle.basedOn("Footnotes Style");

     

    Thank you for your answers

     
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  • [Jongware]
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    8. [Jongware],
    May 25, 2012 8:18 AM   in reply to walker85
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    The top one.

     

    The bottom one only works for a paragraph style (and then it's value is what you would expect).

     
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    9. walker85,
    May 28, 2012 6:06 AM   in reply to [Jongware]
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    hi, i tried the option but when i run the script this is the error "Invalid value for property set 'appliedParagraphStyle' String was expected, or ParagraphStyle NothingEnum enumerator but received "Footnotes Style""

     

    app.findGrepPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = "Footnotes Style";

    in this command "Footnotes Style" is not a string?!? what's wrong?

     
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  • [Jongware]
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    10. [Jongware],
    May 28, 2012 6:59 AM   in reply to walker85
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    Yeah, on occasion I get the same thing with commands that *should* work that way. Try forcing the *exact* pointer to a style down its throat -- sometimes you have to be quite explicit.

     

    app.findGrepPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles.item("Footnotes Style");

     

    By the way: this will not work if your 'notes style is inside a group. If it is, you have to drill down to the exact position using "paragraphStyleGroups" items.

     
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  • walker85
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    11. walker85,
    May 28, 2012 8:05 AM   in reply to [Jongware]
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    ok your command is quite correct, i tried with

     

    app.findGrepPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles.item(#number of style); and now the script goes.

     

    Thank you again

     
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