Indesign question PLEASE HELP 66 Responses

Last post: 1 month, 4 weeks ago | Thread started: Oct 5, 08, 10:08 a.m.

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• marychain

  I have a bunch of type that I need to change the formatting on. I created a bunch of new styles to lessen the workload...but I still have to go to each line basically and change the style.

  question - Is there a way to make InDesign search for all text between brackets....I have a bunch of numbers in brackets that need to be changed and it would be great if InDesign could find them all at once....seeing as how I'm dealing with hundreds of pages.

  I guess it would be like a cascading style sheet function, but applied to print...can I do this?

  help me Qbn...you're my only hope

  Oct 5, 08, 10:08 a.m. – Permalink

• _salisae_

  can you do a find/replace for your bracket and instead of replacing you make your number style change? seems like you shouldn't have to do this by rote.

  

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  Dog-earOct 5, 08, 10:37 a.m. – Permalink

• jaylarson

  this came to mind, but I don't know the entirety of your problem:
  http://creativebits.org/indesign…

  • they you could let indesign know how to format the bracketed copy and how it lies within the general layout– jaylarson1/4

    ... of the document– jaylarson2/4

    now we're onto something!– _salisae_3/4

    I think this might be the key...cheers!– marychain4/4

  

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  Dog-earOct 5, 08, 10:40 a.m. – Permalink

• monospaced

  You can set up a master page with a page number that you can edit.

  

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  Dog-earOct 5, 08, 10:45 a.m. – Permalink

• alicetheblue

  marychain ... post back on the details please
  as this stumps me ;-/

  

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  Dog-earOct 5, 08, 11:46 a.m. – Permalink

• MrOneHundred

  OK. You can do a search for this kind of thing, but you will probably have to do a separate search for numbers containing each amount of digits, ie, a search for thousands, hundreds, tens, and so on. But you have to do it in reverse order from most digits to least, so if you know the biggest number you need to find is, say 1987, you would search for “bracket, any digit, any digit, any digit, any digit, bracket” to cover the thousands, followed by bracket, any digit, any digit, any digit, bracket” to cover the hundreds, “bracket, any digit, any digit, bracket” to cover the double digit combos and then “bracket, any digit, bracket” for the singles.

  In the “change to” field, you can specify a character and paragraph styles to change to. Now I understand you want to have the brackets and numbers formatted with different character styles, so once you have done all of the above, you can go back and re-find any brackets formatted with that new character style and change them to yet another character style.

  Hope this helps.

  

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  Dog-earOct 5, 08, 4:05 p.m. – Permalink

• Gucci

  create your desired character or paragraph style - then create a nested style with an after character attribute and use the character/paragraph style there. If you want to terminate it at a certain point (for example, at the end of a bracket) use the "end nested style" function. You'll still have to do a find/replace and insert an "end nested style" invisible character, but that'll guarantee you're hitting the beginning and end of a bracketed segment.

  I hope that makes sense. If it doesn't - holler back at me or send me an e-mail. my brain is half fried from vacation still. :)

  

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  Dog-earOct 5, 08, 5:25 p.m. – Permalink