Find/Change whole words in CS3

Maybe I'm just being dense, but when I do a find/change in ID CS3 I can't find the option to search for whole words only. The default is set to ignore whole words, so I end up finding a lot of undesirable matches. My last search was for "air," so you can imagine how many false matches I got.
This was quite obvious in CS2, but those options (including match case) seem to have moved somewhere where I can't find them.
Any assistance would be most appreciated.
Mark

With your mouse, examine each of the icons under the Change field. A tooltip identifies each one. One of them is the one you want.
Dave

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CS3? GREP's the way to do it!
If you're in a hurry :-) Search
>^\d+\.\d+\s
Replace with formatting only, Head1.
Step by step:
>^
Start of a paragraph. This does
i not
include the previous return; it also 'finds' start of a story, or the first position after a table or page break.
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any number of decimals, 1 or more (that's the +)
>\.
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>\d+
-- even more decimals.
>\s
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Search for a whole word fails if word in text is preceeded by "-"

Hallo there,
I discovered a new "feature" by Adobe Reader. When I search for a Whole word, and if a word is preceeded by a "-" it lists it, although it shouldnt.
For example. Serached word : "Word".
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Btw, maybe such whole word search is possible only with a regular expression?
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I'm new to scripting and JavaScript is giving me a headache, but I'll keep trying. What I'm trying to do is automate a few things so that the production time of our school newspaper is reduced while insuring accuracy.
I've played around a little with the text find change sample and the changing or adding paragraph styles in the InDesignCS3_ScriptingGuide_JS.pdf and I barely understand what I'm doing.
When us page designers receive text to place in the document, our editors mark the text with tags like: text, where the word "text" is to be bolded. (there wouldn't any spaces between < and b and > etc. I just did that so It'll show up here). We have basic character styles and paragraph styles set up, and we just started working with nested styles.
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You've not found yourself the easiest of tasks! You need GREP find/replace, not text. Do you have any experience with GREP? It's worth investigating, it's a powerful feature. The script below handles bold. For clarity, it doesn't do any error checking: it assumes that there's a document with text in it and that the document contains a character style called 'bold'.
// talk to Indesign, nobody else
#target indesign
// reset the Find/Change dialog
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
// find everything between and (including these codes)
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '.+?';
// add 'bold' style
app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = 'bold';
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app.activeDocument.changeGrep();
// now delete the and codes
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '</?b>';
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You can adapt it easily to handle other codes, and at a later stage you could generalise it so that you needn't repeat whole bunches of code.
Good luck with your first forays. Again, it's not the easiest of tasks, but it's worth getting to grips with.
Peter

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I'm trying to find all occurances of the [Basic Paragraph] style and replace them with [No Paragraph Style]. I'm using:
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I need a Script for Find/Change words with GREP, and apply a paragraph style...
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Hi Marcos,
If you want the script to create character styles: Bold , Italic, Bold Italic, etc, and replace local formatting with these styles, use scripts in post #3.
But if you want find and change words, or/and replace local formatting with styles defined by you, use FindChangeByList script.
If the latter, I recommend you to download and install Record Find Change script (written by Martin Fisher).
Then choose settings you need in Find-Change dialog – make sure they work as expected – and run Record Find Change script. A Notepad/TextEdit file will pop up with a line containing the recorded setting. Copy it, open FindChangeList.txt, delete the contents of this file and paste the line you just copied (or add it to the bottom of the file).
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Finally run FindChangeByList.jsx to make all changes in one go.
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Can anyone help identify why this script doesn't work? i want it to replace multiple returns with a single paragraph return. It's replacing with a soft return rather than a hard return.
I copied and pasted the find grep and change grep fields into the script. I even tried it by typing "\r" into the change grep field. Any thoughts? Much appreciated!
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
--Clear the find/change preferences.
set find grep preferences to nothing
set change grep preferences to nothing
set find text preferences to nothing
set change text preferences to nothing
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set include footnotes of find change grep options to false
set include hidden layers of find change grep options to false
set include locked layers for find of find change grep options to false
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I've started using Find/Change to search for the catalogue numbers but seem to only be able to search one catalogue number at a time that way.
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Thanks

GREP can search for more than one phrase "at once" (i.e., in one operation), like this:
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... a list of 1000 catalogue numbers to search for ...
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I want to modify the "find" box to be avble to only search for whole words.

I want to modify the "find" box to look only for matching "whole words," otherwise--it's pretty pointless!!!

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CS3 Find/Change Correction

Fellow Scripters--
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The affected objects are:
AppleScript
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findChangeGrepOptions
findChangeGlyphOptions
VBScript
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FindChangeGrepOptions
FindChangeGlyphOptions
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Thanks,
Ole

Here is the version of the script for CS4 (it works in CS3 as well, much better than original CS3 version).
http://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/2080627-12695/FindChangeByListCS4.zip
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http://www.kasyan.ho.com.ua/downloads/RecordFindChange_CS3_Kas.zip
Check out also this script: http://www.kasyan.ho.com.ua/find_change_by_queries.html
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How i can find whole words only in a string?
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As usual, late to the party. Here is an example in the form of a stand alone Project.
' new Project with default BLANK Form1
' replace ALL Form1 code with this code.
' Illustrates simple word find in string
' using simple RegEx with CASE/NO CASE.
Option Strict On
Option Explicit On
Option Infer Off
Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions
Public Class Form1
Dim rtb As New RichTextBox
Dim tb1, tb2, tb3 As New TextBox
Dim lab1, lab2 As New Label
Dim b, b1 As New Button
Dim cb As New CheckBox
Dim r1, r2, r3 As New RadioButton
Dim NormalF As New Font(rtb.Font.FontFamily, 12, FontStyle.Regular)
Dim HiLight As New Font(rtb.Font.FontFamily, 16, FontStyle.Bold)
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.Multiline = True
.Size = New Size(270, 200)
.BackColor = Color.Khaki
.ForeColor = Color.Maroon
.Font = NormalF
.Anchor = AnchorStyles.Left Or AnchorStyles.Right Or AnchorStyles.Top
.BorderStyle = BorderStyle.FixedSingle
.ScrollBars = CType(ScrollBars.Vertical, RichTextBoxScrollBars)
End With
With lab1
.Text = "Pattern"
.Location = New Point(5, 430)
.AutoSize = True
.Anchor = AnchorStyles.Left Or AnchorStyles.Right Or AnchorStyles.Bottom
End With
With tb1
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.Width = 100
.BackColor = Color.Khaki
.ForeColor = Color.Maroon
.Font = New Font(Me.Font.FontFamily, 12)
.Anchor = AnchorStyles.Left Or AnchorStyles.Right Or AnchorStyles.Bottom
.BorderStyle = BorderStyle.FixedSingle
End With
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.Location = New Point(5, 215)
.Multiline = True
.Size = New Size(270, 200)
.BackColor = Color.Khaki
.ForeColor = Color.Maroon
.Font = New Font(Me.Font.FontFamily, 12)
.Anchor = AnchorStyles.Left Or AnchorStyles.Right Or AnchorStyles.Top Or AnchorStyles.Bottom
.BorderStyle = BorderStyle.FixedSingle
.ScrollBars = ScrollBars.Vertical
End With
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.Text = "Search"
.Location = New Point(5, 460)
.AutoSize = True
.Anchor = AnchorStyles.Left Or AnchorStyles.Right Or AnchorStyles.Bottom
End With
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.Text = "an"
.Location = New Point(56, 455)
.Width = 100
.BackColor = Color.Khaki
.ForeColor = Color.Maroon
.Font = New Font(Me.Font.FontFamily, 12)
.Anchor = AnchorStyles.Left Or AnchorStyles.Right Or AnchorStyles.Bottom
.BorderStyle = BorderStyle.FixedSingle
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.Location = New Point(210, 486)
.Anchor = AnchorStyles.Right Or AnchorStyles.Bottom
.Width = 50
End With
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.Text = "Clear"
.Location = New Point(160, 486)
.Anchor = AnchorStyles.Right Or AnchorStyles.Bottom
.Width = 50
End With
With cb
.Text = "Ignore CASE"
.Checked = True
.Location = New Point(0, 486)
.Anchor = AnchorStyles.Right Or AnchorStyles.Bottom
.RightToLeft = Windows.Forms.RightToLeft.Yes
End With
With r1
.Width = 16
.Text = Nothing
.Checked = False
.Location = New Point(tb1.Right + 15, tb1.Top)
.Anchor = AnchorStyles.Right Or AnchorStyles.Bottom
End With
With r2
.Width = 16
.Text = Nothing
.Checked = False
.Location = New Point(tb3.Right + 15, tb3.Top)
.Anchor = AnchorStyles.Right Or AnchorStyles.Bottom
End With
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.Text = "ALL"
.Checked = True
.Location = New Point(tb3.Right + 45, tb3.Top)
.Anchor = AnchorStyles.Right Or AnchorStyles.Bottom
End With
Me.Controls.AddRange({rtb, lab1, lab2, tb1, tb2, tb3, b, b1, cb, r1, r2, r3})
AddHandler b.Click, AddressOf b_Click
AddHandler b1.Click, AddressOf b1_Click
AddHandler r3.CheckedChanged, AddressOf ALLselected
AddHandler cb.CheckedChanged, AddressOf KeepCase
Me.Width = 500
tb3.Select()
End Sub
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' set the pattern to use depending on Radio button selected
Dim pattern As String = Nothing
Select Case r3.Checked
Case True
' use straight text pattern
pattern = tb3.Text
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Select Case r1.Checked
Case True
' use pattern as entered by user
pattern = tb1.Text
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End Select
End Select
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Dim rgxCI As New Regex(pattern, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase)
' case sensitive
Dim rgxCS As New Regex(pattern, RegexOptions.None)
rtb.SelectAll()
rtb.SelectionBackColor = rtb.BackColor
rtb.SelectionFont = NormalF
If tb3.Text.Length < 1 Then Exit Sub
Select Case cb.Checked
Case True
tb2.AppendText(vbCrLf & "CASE INSENSITIVE pattern = " & pattern & vbCrLf)
Dim m As MatchCollection = rgxCI.Matches(rtb.Text)
If m.Count < 1 Then
tb2.AppendText("No Matches for '" & pattern & "'" & vbCrLf)
Else
tb2.AppendText("Found " & m.Count.ToString & " Matches, indexes = ")
End If
For Each match As Match In m
rtb.SelectionStart = match.Index
rtb.SelectionLength = match.Length
rtb.SelectionFont = HiLight
rtb.Refresh()
rtb.SelectionBackColor = Color.LightBlue
tb2.AppendText(match.Index.ToString & " ")
Next
Case Else
tb2.AppendText(vbCrLf & "CASE SENSITIVE pattern = " & pattern & vbCrLf)
Dim m As MatchCollection = rgxCS.Matches(rtb.Text)
If m.Count < 1 Then
tb2.AppendText("No Matches for '" & pattern & "'" & vbCrLf)
Else
tb2.AppendText("Found " & m.Count.ToString & " Matches, indexes = ")
End If
For Each match As Match In m
rtb.SelectionStart = match.Index
rtb.SelectionLength = match.Length
rtb.SelectionFont = HiLight
rtb.Refresh()
rtb.SelectionBackColor = Color.Pink
tb2.AppendText(match.Index.ToString & " ")
Next
End Select
tb2.AppendText(vbCrLf)
End Sub
Private Sub b_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)
DoFind()
End Sub
Private Sub b1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)
tb2.Text = Nothing
tb3.Text = Nothing
rtb.SelectAll()
rtb.SelectionBackColor = rtb.BackColor
rtb.SelectionFont = NormalF
End Sub
Private Sub ALLselected(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)
Dim rb As RadioButton = DirectCast(sender, RadioButton)
If rb.Checked Then
cb.Visible = False
cb.Checked = True
Else
cb.Visible = True
End If
End Sub
Private Sub KeepCase(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)
Dim cb As CheckBox = DirectCast(sender, CheckBox)
If r3.Checked Then
cb.Visible = False
cb.Checked = True
Else
cb.Visible = True
End If
End Sub
End Class
Regards Les, Livingston, Scotland

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Hello,
Below is a script that uses GREP to find straight apostrophies and then change them to smart (curly) ones. The script invokes the Find/Change dialog so that the user can see what she or he is doing.
However, if the user last used the Find/Change dialog in the TEXT mode, that is the mode that appears. I want the script to go to the GREP mode. I see that there is code for app.loadFindChangeQuery(queryName, searchMode), but I have no idea what the "queryName" is and how to use it in this script.
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I appreciate your help but I have found another solution. I am amazed at my own stupidity sometimes. You see, I do my scripting in a very lame sort of way because I have never used Javascript outside of InDesign. As such, I find myself at a disadvantage because the documentation that Adobe provides assumes that you are aware of many of the basics. Case in point: I have always had trouble manipulating strings because I NEVER KNEW that you could search and replace strings! I just could not find examples of this in the Adobe documentation. So here I was in some cases adding temporary textFrames so I could get to my strings as text contents and then removing the temporary textFrames at the end of the script. In this particular case I needed to merge several paragraphs into one paragraph. Now that I know how to search & replace strings, it is so simple to strip away all the paragraph returns (which are included in text contents). I am learning, albeit rather slowly. Thanks again.
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[CS3] [JS] Find Change Aesthetic Kerning Pairs

Hi,
I want to find and "erase" all the aesthetic kerning values in a document with Find Change.
How do I say: "app.findTextPreferences.kerningValue" != (zero or null)
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Can't do that. ID can't find "other" attributes, only specified ones.
This one regularly bites me when authors don't use Superscript and Subscript, but make their text a few pts smaller and move it up/down a few points -- and I bet it's their (w|W)ord processor that does it!
"A" solution (as opposed to "the") is to mark all 'good' text with S&R with a color, then search for orginally-colored text.
.. Although, in your case, I think you can set all kerning to 0 and be done with it.

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