Adobe Community: Find / Change > Replace "End of story" by Paragraph

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1. Scott Falkner,

Aug 17, 2012 6:51 PM in reply to ChristianAaltonen

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Can you explain a bit further? I do not understand what you are trying to do. Also, ALWAYS tell us your version of InDesign. Different versions have different features. Without knowing your version we can’t know what solution will work.

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2. ChristianAaltonen,

Aug 18, 2012 5:26 AM in reply to Scott Falkner

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Hi Scott,

See the IMG please to understand me more:

Each textframe has the "#" hidden character on the very end. I want to put there a paragraph to the very end of each textframe I selected. I imagined something like this:

Open "Find / Change" dialog box
Find the "#" {End of Story}
And replace it by "¶ #" {Put the paragraph before the very End of Story}

I am merging multiple textframes, copy them and put the text to the different indd document. But if there is not a paragraph on the end of the textframes which I am merging, all the text joins together and I have to put paragraphs manually there afterwards. {I am merging 4 textframes into one, so i have to put there at least 3 paragraphs. I have 350 items, which means about thousand paragraphs together to be put manually.}

Runnig ID CS6.

Thank you!

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3. Peter Spier,

Aug 18, 2012 5:27 AM in reply to ChristianAaltonen

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End of story cannot be "replaced" in the sense that every story must have a start and an end. It sound to me as if youare trying to thread separate stories into one and you don't want the last paragraph of one story merging with the next paragraph of the next.

the following GREP expression should insert a paragraph break aftet the last character at the end of a story, You can run it in Find/Change before threading:

Find: .\z

Change: $0\r

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4. Peter Spier,

Aug 18, 2012 5:28 AM in reply to Peter Spier

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Ah, simultaneous posting. I see my intuition was correct.

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5. ChristianAaltonen,

Aug 18, 2012 6:00 AM in reply to Peter Spier

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Peter Spier wrote:

Ah, simultaneous posting. I see my intuition was correct.

You are the magician mate!

Definitely!

Thanks for your sparkling intuition

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6. Peter Spier,

Aug 18, 2012 6:39 AM in reply to ChristianAaltonen

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It occurs to me that you could refine this to only add a parqagraph break at the end when one isn't there already by searching for [^\r}\z

While the first expression seems not to find existing paragraph breaks so it doesn't double them, it also ignores forced line breaks (and presumably other breaks). I don't know why you would have a situation where you'd have some sort of break other than a paragraph break at the end of a story, but the new expression will protext the formatting of the the first paragraph in the next story if the first one ends in a forced line break.

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7. Peter Spier,

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Find / Change > Replace "End of story" by Paragraph

Aug 17, 2012 5:39 PM

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