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

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Hi ID geniuses, got a question for your gigantic brains.
This may or may not be an easy one...
I do a lot of production work and I'd like to create a Find/Change or even a GREP search that will allow me to change multiple blank dates at once).
the format changes from file to file and follows these 4 formats usually and all 4 formats could be used in one document.
XX/XX/XX (8 characters)
XX/XX/10 (8 characters)
XX/XX/2010 (10 characters)
9/26/10 - wrong date in place already. (6 – 8 characters depending on the month)
Instead of having 4 different searches, is it possible to do one search that look for any of these text formats and change them at once?
Any ideas/guidance will be appreciated.
Thanks for your time.

Piece of cake.
Of course GREP comes to the rescue. Enter this in your search field:
\b((XX|\d{1,2})/){2}(XX|\d{2,4})\b
and it'll find any of your examples. Wot Doth This All Mean?
\b     a Word break -- there must not be a word character before this entire expression. This means it'll ignore "XXX/XX/XX".
(     repeat group -- see below
( XX | \d{1,2} )     Either "XX" (exactly) or "a digit, 1 or 2". This means it'll ignore "XXX/XX/XX" (three exes), pick up "1/2/3" (one digit), ignore "123/123/123" (three digits)
/     A slash. Nothing special, except ...
)     .. since this is the end of the repeat group ...
{2}     ... we want twice the sequence "XX/" (or "digit/"), to match "XX/XX/" and every possible combo with digits as well.
(     oh yet another group. That's because ...
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|     ... OR ... (hold on, I'm gettin' there)
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)     .. in this entire group.
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/System/Library/Filesystems/smbfs.fs/Contents/Resources
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/usr/lib/sasl2/smb_lm.so
/usr/lib/sasl2/smb_nt.so
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if log the table , it records the changes made to the data in the
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regards,
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Check the tables CDHDR, CDPOS
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You have the answer on hand (user_arguments / all_arguments)!
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POSITION       NOT NULL NUMBER
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DATA_LENGTH    NUMBER
DATA_PRECISION NUMBER
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RADIX          NUMBER
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Edited :
or POSITION in argument list,or null for function return value
-SK
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Date Find - Change

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I though I should be brief in posting my question but after the spanking I just received, I'll give more details of what I did before I posted my question so that you'll see all that I tried before asking for help.
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identified by $msgHandle;
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PrinterName then
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(GF:$driverName,GF:$printerName,GF:$portName)
identified by $msgHandle;
set $oCrystalReport-
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DEFAULT, 'Cancel', 'Printer Setup'
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identified by $msgHandle;
set
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case 1:
set
$oCrystalReport to UNDEFINED
return
(FALSE);
case 2:
send
message PrinterSetup to $oCrystalReport
using
(0)
identified by $msgHandle;
if
GF:$printerName $oCrystalReport->PrinterName then
begin
set GF:$printerName to $oCrystalReport->PrinterName;
set GF:$driverName to $oCrystalReport->DriverName;
set GF:$portName to $oCrystalReport->PortName;
end
break;
end
end
end
end
return
(FALSE);
END

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Hi,
I imported a number of photos taken within one week into iPhoto - some of them were assigned a wrong date by my camera which made the last photos the first ones in the folder.
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Thanks
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Hi Terence,
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