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Find/Change help!

Aug 6, 2012 11:55 PM

Tags: #color #find #change #styles #grep

Hi again,

Please see the picture.

I want to change the color of all the digits before / and incl. / to white in the cells.

Is that possible? Or maybe give them a style so I later can change the color?

If anyone want to try it out, here is a cs5 doc :

http://www.speedyshare.com/23nUa/findchange.indd

379 Views 4 Replies Latest reply: Kirikokos, Aug 7, 2012 4:08 AM

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1. [Jongware],

Aug 7, 2012 1:40 AM in reply to Kirikokos

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(Untested) Add a GREP style to the paragraph style used in the cells that sets your 'white' (*) color with a character style. Use this GREP:

^[\d.]+/

(*) It's better not to use a literal color "white", but "None" instead. "White" will insert white text in your document -- visible if you add a background color, and selectable in your PDF. "None" will insert nothing.

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2. Kirikokos,

Aug 7, 2012 2:02 AM in reply to [Jongware]

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Hi Jongware,

It almost worked. See the picture. The last cell did'nt work.

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3. [Jongware],

Aug 7, 2012 3:21 AM in reply to Kirikokos

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Ah. The GREP looks for (start of paragraph) (any positive number of (digit or period)) (slash). The last column also contains a comma

Change the GREP to this and you should be allright:

^[\d.,]+/

(there's a comma added inside the square brackets)

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4. Kirikokos,

Aug 7, 2012 4:08 AM in reply to [Jongware]

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Thanks! Worked!

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