Find/Change throughout a book

I have several documents I'd like to use find/change with. Is there a way I can create a book of all these docs and use find/change? Is there perhaps a better way to do this?
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks

Open all the documents you wish to run the find/change on and choose all
documents from the find/change dialog.
Bob

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Find/change in book

Hi there
Is it possible to perform a Find/Change search on a whole book, without having to open all the documents at once or make a PDF?
I'm using CS3 on a Mac.

Making a PDF would lead you nowhere
No -- the only option is to Find/Change in all open documents. That does exactly what you already found out.
InDesign doesn't have any problems at all with lots of documents open -- I do that all the time.

Find/change across multiple docs in book without opening all first?

I am working on a book that contains hundreds of individual documents. I would like to be able to find/change globally across all documents, but as far as I can tell, I must first open all of the documents in the book so that the scope menu in the find/change dialog contains "All Documents" as an option. Needless to say, having to open more than a dozen or so documents causes my computer to bog down and it's practical.
Am I missing something here? Is there a way for me to make global search/replaces across all docs in a book without opening them? If so, how?

I'm not able to check this now, but I believe that FrameMaker can open closed book documents to perform spell checking on them. FM leaves the files open, whether or not corrections were made. I'm not sure if such opened files, in which no corrections have been made, need to be saved when closing them, but the user must close them. Files that contain cross-file cross-references are by default checked for valid cross-reference links, which requires the user to choose Save or Don't Save in order to close them, even if no corrections were made. The link-checking is considered to be a change; some folks consider this a bug, others a feature.
I agree that it's a good feature to request for ID. A related feature request would be the ability to open next or previous ID files when paging through to the start or end of a file that's a member of a currently-opened book.
HTH
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FrameMaker 8 (Unstructured) - How to Find/Change "Referenced File" location globally?

Hello,
First off, I have a FrameMaker 8 (Unstructured) book that links ALL of its graphics, to a separate graphics folder on my network drive.
With that said, I am hoping to do the following:
1. Create a mirror copy of "Book A" and place that copy in another folder, (at the same level) on my network drive.
2. Open up the new book file (e.g. Book B).
3. Run a Find/Change to replace:
..\..\..\Graphics Catalog A\Graphics\a000123.png
..\..\..\Graphics Catalog B\Graphics\b000123.png
The end result is that I could globally map out all the "Referenced Files" to the new folder path structure. This will allow me to save from having to manually re-import each of the 1000 graphics - into my book files.
Finally, I am hoping to do this with the built in capabilities of FrameMaker 8 first. If that is not possible, then I will consider other possibilities.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Regards,
Jim

This is how you do it:
Outside of FM, copy the "Book A" folder and paste it where you want.
Also, create the Graphics folder and file structure (i.e.
"... Graphics Catalog B\Graphics ...")
Before you open Book B in FM, temporarily rename the graphics
folder that the FM files in Book A uses, e.g. "Graphics Catalog Z".
Now, when you open the files in Book B, FM won't be able to find
the old graphics since the folder name has changed. For each file,
FM will open the "Missing graphics" dialog, where you need to
browse to the new graphics folder, e.g. "Graphics Catalog B\Graphics".
Select the correct file that FM asks for, and tick the option to
use this folder for all remaining graphics.
If all the image file names are identical, you will only need to
do this once per FM file. If you really need the image file names
to differ like you said:
> ..\..\..\Graphics Catalog A\Graphics\a000123.png
> ..\..\..\Graphics Catalog B\Graphics\b000123.png
then you need to select the correct file name for *each* graphics
that FM cannot find. This is a good reason to keep the file names
identical, even though the folder name has changed.
When all the files have opened, rename the original graphics folder
back to "Graphics Catalog A".
/Thomas Michanek

JS for Find/Change

I am a novice with JS, but trying to make a couple of enhancements to workflow using scripting. I have managed to figure most things out ok, but usually just need a little kickstart. What I am trying to do is:
InDesign CS2
Find a specific sequence of characters in a text selection (in this case, " - " (that is space dash space) and replace with end of nested style & forced line break (^h^n). At the same time, search for double carriage returns and change to single carriage returns (^p^p => ^p).
Currently, using the Find/Change Function from the Edit menu but I'd like to be able to just apply a script to do it all. I have tried to dig through the archives for a similar posting, but haven't had a lot of luck. If anyone can please point me in the right direction, it would most certainly be greatly appreciated!
Thank you in advance.
-Scott

Thank you Peter ... I have just purchased the electronic version of the O'Reilly book that you recommend. This will certainly help.
One thing that is not clear ... can I use characters such as "^p" or "^h" directly when setting my parameters, or is there a unicode equivalent that I would need to use?
Thanks again.
-Scott

Multiple find/changes into one step?

Hi there
I have a series of find / changes that I need to do for all the chapters in a book. They'll be the same each time, and rather than do all ten of them for each chapter I'm wondering how I can condense it into one process that I can run on each chapter, perhaps through scripting. Any ideas?
I do have a little scripting experience, but not enough to tackle it myself yet. Is there another way to automate the steps? Or does anyone have some base code I could work from?
I'm working in CS3 on a Mac.

One of the standard scripts that come with InDesign is FindChangeByList.jsx -- it's installed by default in Application/Samples/Javascript. There is also a VB version.
You don't have to adjust the script; the changes it makes are listed in a specialized format in the file FindChangeList.txt.

Changing multipel Adress Book entries at once?

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Does anyone know any way to change like a 100 Adress Book entries at once?
I have a bunch of contacts that work at the same company. And say for example that the company changed name from Banana Computers to Banana Hardware and I just want to change that one thing for all my contacts?
I have seen a similar option in almost every other Mac OS X applications, iPhoto, iTunes etc. But I can't seem to find it in Adress Book.
Even if it's not in there, I think there should be some Automator work action for it. But it seems that the Automator actions for Adress Book are totally useless. And I've searched for new ones.
Please help this is killing me.

You nee to use Applescript. Try this one.
AK
click here to open this script in your editor<pre style="font-family: 'Monaco', 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; overflow:auto; color: #222; background: #DDD; padding: 0.2em; font-size: 10px; width:400px">tell application "Address Book"
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Script for running multiple find/change queries

Working on a large ID book document (*.indb), I have saved several dozens of Find/Change Queries (named "col01", "col02" etc.) that I run on "All documents". For a particular reason I have to run these queries several times a day.
So I was wondering whether there is, or whether anybody out there would write, a script that runs these queries one after the other. Given the size of the book, it might be necessary to provide for the script to pause after each query is run (before it goes on with the next), but I am just guessing.
Any help is much appreciated!

There are a couple of others:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/5173943#5173943
this is more at code level rather than a GUI, but the actual queries are made using the Find/Change dialog box.
Also
http://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/grep_query_manager.html
This is good too, but only does GREP searches (no text, glyph or object find/replaces) that were written by the user - does not use the ones installed with InDesign. Does allow changes by selection, story, document or folder.
Did try the Doquerylist suggested by Kasyan. This allows GREP/text changes by the user/installed with InDesign, but only applies to a selection or text-thread.
Always good to have more than one way of accomplishing a task though!

Find/Change

Can someone explain to me how to use the Find/Change option? I just don't get it. Trying to change a 4/C blue to a PMS throughout my document. Whether it be text or art. I select the 4/C in the top window and the PMS in the bottom window of the Find/Change Window. But I can't figure out what options to check or not check in the Search and Type windows. Is there a way to set it up for a universal change. Thanks for some clarification on this.

Thanks, Bob! That's def the way to go. But I would still love to know how to use that thing properly. Bc sometimes, too, I just want to know where a specific color is being used, not necessarily that it has to be changed. I did read the directions in the help menu, but haven't been able to grasp them fully. Will have to read again and try to absorb them again.

Find/change issue

In versions of InDesign up to CS6, I could do something with find/change that doesn't seem to work anymore. I will try to describe it. Often, when working on a book, after the first proofreading pass, the editor will send me back page numbers to insert. In the original file I make, I use dummy text for all of these, putting 00 (2 zeros) and coloring them pink so they stand out and so that any other instance of 00 which is not a page number won't get selected. So when I need to do all the replacements, I can simply search for "00", followed by text color M100 in the find/change box. Here's where my problem lies: prior to CC, the first found instance of the 00 would be highlighted and I could just type in the correct number where the highlight was. Now that won't work, and InDesign wants me to type the correct number into the "change" field and then hit find next. It seems like a small thing, but it actually adds a ton of time when you have 200 or so instances to change. Can anyone help me here? Or did I used to have a plug-in that I've forgotten?

Same problem here. Works with CS6, the dialog in CS6 looks more like Apple GUI. In CC and CC2014 the GUI looks more like Adobes own.
When searching for a word, that doesn't exist, the dialog pops up and after that the focus in the search box, doesn't mark the word.
So we have to click search box again and type a new search. In CS 6 it did mark the search directly after the dialog.
Very buggy.

Find/Change Varying dates..

I have a varied dates that appear throughout a LONG document.. for instance "January 14, 1945" date changes all the time of course.. usually appears at start of a paragraph.. i need to set up a find/change to be able to select it, and I need to change it's style.. is this the wildcard choice somehow in find/change?

try a GREP search for \<\w+\.? \d\d?, \d{4}\> (those are ordinary typed spaces after the first ? and the comma). If should find dates with months spelled out or abbreviated with or without a period. You can use this in a GREP Style as part of a paragraph style to apply your character style so you don't need find/change

Find/change dialogue box in indesign CC

Last week, i pasted a full sentence in the "change to" dialogue, and since then the entire find/change box has increased in size, taking up approximately 2/3 of the width of my screen. there is no obvious way to manipulate the shape or size of this dialogue box, so i am completely at a loss as to what to do. any advice?

this seems to have fixed the problem. thank you.
Nita Congress
Book Designer/Editor
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Subcript using find/change

Hi I am trying to change for eg: H2O to H2(subscript)O using the find/change command. It doesn't work. Can anyone help?

Ted, Peter and John,
As Ted, I make scientific books. Such expression is rather treated as an equation with MathType or MathMagic editors. So this kind of question does not arise, for me. The treatment is done, eg, with a TeX syntax as: ${H}_{2}O$.
I've created a lot of grep search/replace to do this. Eg: find H2O, CH4, SO4/2- … and replace by the good TeX syntax so that we can finally obtain MathMagic equations.
SO4/2- is interesting: SO, normal, 4 (subscript), 2- (superscript with - using a special math MMTimes font), one under the other.
Difficult too to treat with ID a formula where H2O is, eg, all in subscript!
Easier to write it with MathMagic and, fortunately, a lot of "formulas" will be treated by search/replace as:
search H2O
replace by: ${H}_{2}O$
Good night! (22h 20, in France)

Help with Find/Change and wildcards

I have indesign CS5 and I'm working on a document that has math examples throughout such as 9-1=8. The proofreader said we need to change it to have a space between each digit and math symbol to be 9 - 1 = 8. How can I do this? When I go to Find/Change I have the option of wildcards in the Find, but not in the Replace.
Also the dash in these equations need to be changed to en dashes. How can I tell indesign that anytime is sees such an equation the dash needs to be changed? I don't want to just change all dashes as I have many dashes that need to stay.

I do it in two steps, first changing the hyphens to en-dashes:
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Replace $1 $2 $3 (there's a space between the terms there).
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Find/Change throughout a book

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