Find and Replace from a list?

I have a 400 page indesign brochure. It contains 3000 codes. I want to change those 3000 codes to links (existing code the word to click on - not the view of full url). I have a csv file with all codes (col 1) and full http link (col 2). Anyone help me with a find and replace? I have CS5.5 (very poor see) - my knowledge is pretty poor as I have not used the program for a few years. I would appreciate any help.

Take a look here Re: FindChangebyList with strings of text? I think #12 is what you want.
You might need to sort the order of the excel list according to the length of the word from longest to shortest.
To do that in cell C1 type =LEN(A1)
Copy that to the whole column apply the sort to the table from largest to smallest and then erase the whole column C save the file and it's ready for the script.
I would have written the script differently now as my skills have improved significantly, adding a sort function in the script would be very easy but I'm very busy now.
Trevor

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"(for IC5/8"V)"
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Hi,
Try this
1) with all the images showing, got to Find -> By caption or Note
2) enter the caption you are looking for Image Description and click on OK
It should display all the ones with that caption
3) select a few images as a test
4) go to Edit -> Add caption to selected items
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I downsaved the VI to 8.6, I'm not sure in which version you are working, if you have 8.6 or higher you are able to open it. Hope this brings you further,
Best regards,
Martijn S
Applications Engineer
NI Netherlands
Attachments:
findURLexample.vi ‏12 KB

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sadamec1 wrote:
> Well David, you Findmaster - it worked! (At least it
found and highlighted the
> code). Now, I need to dig through what you sent me and
compare it against my
> regular expression definitions to find out how to grab
the rest of these
> phrases. You're the best. Thank you!
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<\?xml[^>]+>
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<[^>]+
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other than
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[^>]+>
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Message was edited by: DMilkes

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I read in the help at 'Customizing the appearance of dialog boxes' at point 4
On your disk, find the appropriate HTM file in the Configuration/Objects, Configuration/ Commands, or Configuration/Behaviors folder.
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Batch-find-and-replace.jsx

Hi there, I wrote a batch-processing script for find change queries and thought I share it with you. You can get it over here
You can process GREP, TEXT, GLYPH and OBJECT searches.
Purpouse
While creating books in InDesign with several documents we always come across some find change queries that need to be used again, and again, and again. To make this process easier you can just grab their names and put them into a list. The script will than try to process all your queries in one click.
prerequisites
make sure you have a toml file.
make sure the toml file is next to the script.
make sure the toml file has the right formatting (see below in section TOML)
if you want the script to autoexecute (without toml file selection), make sure the .toml file has the right name: "batch-find-and-replace.toml"
make sure your fcqueries work right
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Place the script and the toml file into your Scripts Panel Folder
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Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language is a simple markup language that makes settings human readable. It is still in development and may change a lot. But still. It is a pretty easy language and can be learned by anyone.
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do_grep = true
do_glyph = true
do_object = false
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[objects]
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CAN HAVE Settings
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!IMPORTANT! you MUST remove the .xml from the filename in the list as shown above.
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The basic .toml file here --> https://raw.github.com/...ind-and-replace.toml
The Readme here --> https://github.com/...lob/master/README.md
And the whole package here --> https://github.com/...e/archive/master.zip

Great script, it worked perfectly with grep, text, glyph, not only worked with OBJECTS, because I do the same operation and does not work. Can you give me a hand? Thank you.
In arquivo.toml is thus:
# These are the basic settings
# The MUST be there
do_text = true
do_grep = false
do_glyph = false
do_object = true
do_all_docs = false
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# They have to be in one line
# TomL the specs say you can break lines in arrays
# But does not allow the toml.js que momento
[text]
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[glyph]
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[object]
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This is the image of the Scripts Panel folder:

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Is this happening to anyone else? I may have to switch back to CS5.

bracdiver wrote:
** ANSWER/Workaround
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Sample
 These are true or false questions. Place your answer on the blank under each question.
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CS6 DW output:
These are true or false questions. Place your answer on the blank under each question.
<ol>
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http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=438450&query.id=2151294
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stoeckel wrote:
Hi there,
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I don't want to get into yet another global variable debate here. The only comment regarding global variables made in this thread was a tongue-in-cheek comment I made. I was not dissing global variable. In fact, I use them quite often. Global variables, like every other programming construct ever invented have their use. The main reason you will see the so called "proven active veterans" go crazy over global variables is that they constantly see them being abused, causing race conditions, and then have to listen to newbies complain that their program doesn't work and LabVIEW sucks, when it's really their programming skills that's the real problem. But that's just my opinion.

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Hi,
I'm using a if statement in my template, but i need to change a value within this statement. It's being used multiple times, therefor it would be easier to do a find and replace, is there a way to do a find and replace within the RTF template? Already openede it in Notepad++, but no luck
Osman

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