Find/Change within page range

Either I'm a bit thick for not being able to work out how to do this or I'm the only one that thinks that this is would be a very useful thing to be able to do.
I want to find/change text in multiple instances all at once, but only on a page range, not the whole document. If I can't do that being able to limit it to one page would work. I realise I can move the pages in question to a new document, do it there and then move it back but that seems a rather 1990's solution!

If there are no threaded text frames anywhere in the document, here's a trick I've used when I've been in your shoes in the past:
Open document. Use TextStitch to stitch all frames in doc.
Go to the first page in your range. Find the first frame (the top-leftmost frame) and start selecting text. Go to the last page in your range. I use control + shift + down-arrow to select whole paragraphs. Hold 'em down until...
... you have selected all of the text you need for your find/change query. Perform your query with "Selection" scope.
Perform any post-find/change cleanup necessary.
When your query is done, use TextStitch to unstitch all frames in your doc. (Which will break all threads, including ones that were made by hand before step 1, hence my caveat "If there are no threaded text frames anywhere in the document.")

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Can anyone suggest a workaround?

Perhaps not the right forum - but nevertheless Appleworks does seem to have got increasingly buggy with each new system update. As Apple are no longer developing Appleworks, instead concentrating on iWork, there's unlikely to be a solution forthcoming.
I find it helps if I quit and re-open Appleworks after working in it for an hour or so - I think it's just caches filling up but can't be definitive on that.
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Hello
As I wrote in my late post, this feature works flawlessly for me.
I assumes that something is corrupted.
It may be in AW's preferences or in the file itself.
For AW's preferences, look at Peggy's good old tip:
<http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=121704>
If it's in the file, try to save it as an AppleWorks 5 document.
Open this new document with AW6.
This protocol forces a complete rebuild of the file's internals and remove the embedded print record.
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Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE samedi 24 mars 2007 12:36:56)

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Sql to find narrow ranges within broad ranges in the same table?

hi,
i'm building a query to find narrow ranges of zip codes within broader
ranges in a table (for tax purposes). for example:
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23400 23499
need to find
23401 23402
23403 23440
23441 23... you get the picture. :)
so, each row has a low value and a hi value, then i need to run a
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to_postal_code as tpc
from ar_sales_tax
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LAST_UPDATE_DATE NOT NULL DATE
LAST_UPDATED_BY NOT NULL NUMBER(15)
CREATED_BY NOT NULL NUMBER(15)
CREATION_DATE NOT NULL DATE
LOCATION_ID NOT NULL NUMBER(15)
RATE_CONTEXT NOT NULL VARCHAR2(30)
ENABLED_FLAG NOT NULL VARCHAR2(1)
START_DATE NOT NULL DATE
END_DATE NOT NULL DATE
FROM_POSTAL_CODE NOT NULL VARCHAR2(30)
TO_POSTAL_CODE NOT NULL VARCHAR2(30)
TAX_RATE NOT NULL NUMBER
TAX_ACCOUNT NUMBER(15)
LOCATION1_RATE NUMBER
LOCATION2_RATE NUMBER
LOCATION3_RATE NUMBER
LOCATION4_RATE NUMBER
LOCATION5_RATE NUMBER
LOCATION6_RATE NUMBER
LOCATION7_RATE NUMBER
LOCATION8_RATE NUMBER
LOCATION9_RATE NUMBER
LOCATION10_RATE NUMBER
ATTRIBUTE_CATEGORY VARCHAR2(30)
ATTRIBUTE1 VARCHAR2(150)
ATTRIBUTE2 VARCHAR2(150)
ATTRIBUTE3 VARCHAR2(150)
ATTRIBUTE4 VARCHAR2(150)
ATTRIBUTE5 VARCHAR2(150)
ATTRIBUTE6 VARCHAR2(150)
ATTRIBUTE7 VARCHAR2(150)
ATTRIBUTE8 VARCHAR2(150)
ATTRIBUTE9 VARCHAR2(150)
ATTRIBUTE10 VARCHAR2(150)
ATTRIBUTE11 VARCHAR2(150)
ATTRIBUTE12 VARCHAR2(150)
ATTRIBUTE13 VARCHAR2(150)
ATTRIBUTE14 VARCHAR2(150)
ATTRIBUTE15 VARCHAR2(150)
PROGRAM_APPLICATION_ID NUMBER(15)
PROGRAM_ID NUMBER(15)
PROGRAM_UPDATE_DATE DATE
REQUEST_ID NUMBER(15)
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LAST_UPDATE_LOGIN NUMBER(15)
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Change page range to page #

How do you change page range to page number in a book in its panel showing the chapters. I see Page Range Chapter 1 - 1-12, Chapter 2 - 1-5, chapter 3 - 1-50, etc instead of Chapter 1 - 1-12, Chapter 2 - 13-17, Chapter 3 - 18-67, etc?
Every book I open and work on is this way????

Peter - It is set for automatic pagination in the page numbering options and page order=continous from previos document and set to automatic in page numbering options
Dominic - No it is set to Absolute numbering
Sorry I didn't respond sooner i checked Subscribe to this discussion by email and didn't recieve anything.

Query to find numeric range gaps within another range

Hi All,
Is it possible to find the solution with a SQL query for the following scenario.
I have done it in PL/SQL but want to do it in SQL. I have tried with analytic functions but not able to find the expected results.
Suppose i have a Table A with below data
Range_Start     Range_End
4                          16
20                        100
101                      200
250                      300
And Table B with below data
SubRange_Start     SubRange_End
7                               9
10                             13
20                             60
70                             80
110                           190
270                           300
i want to find the missing gaps in Table B within the ranges specified in Table A, like below
Output
start     end
4          6
14          16
61          69
81         100
101          109
191          200
250          269

Hi Dear,
Can I do reverse I mean I can get output as your question from your output as below:
I have this table
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1 01-MAY-10 03-MAY-10
1 09-MAY-10 11-MAY-10
1 03-JUN-10 04-JUN-10
2 03-JUN-10 04-JUN-10
2 04-AUG-10 04-AUG-10
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I want like this.
FID FDATE
1 01-MAY-10
1 02-MAY-10
1 03-MAY-10
1 09-MAY-10
1 10-MAY-10
1 11-MAY-10
1 03-JUN-10
1 04-JUN-10
2 03-JUN-10
2 04-JUN-10
2 04-AUG-10
2 06-AUG-10
And:
How can i get date wise entry from Joining date to relieving date like..
FID      START DATE END DATE
1 01-MAY-10 03-MAY-12
1 09-MAY-10 11-MAY-11
2 04-AUG-10 04-AUG-11
I want like this.
FID FDATE
1 01-MAY-10
1 03-MAY-10
1 04-MAY-10
1 05-MAY-10
1 16-MAY-10
1 17-MAY-10
1 08-May-10
1 09-May-10
1 03-May-12
Can you please help me.
Thanks,
Edited by: 978452 on Dec 24, 2012 12:02 AM

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Post Author: MikeDymond
CA Forum: .NET
Even when a report has more than one page the print dialog produced by the .net version of CrystalReportViewer sets the default page range to 1 of 1.Is it possible to change that to default to All? Cheers Mike

Post Author: dlyford
CA Forum: .NET
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I converted with Calibre to epub format and this seems to work !!!
So good so far...
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I have some text which needs to be styled in InDesign CS4 which has a bunch of extraneous tags ( eg. , , etc.). I have customised the FindChangeList.txt file that supports the FindChangeByList.applescript file to do things like:
{find what:""}
{change to:"^S"}
which can then be picked up by a nested style. All good so far.
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Content of FindChangeList.txt follows. The command in the final line works, the command in the second-last line doesn't.
(FYI the second line of code contains 'InDesign CS3' regardless of whether I use CS3 or CS4. I guess they didn't update the file)
--FindChangeList.txt
--A support file for the InDesign CS3 AppleScript FindChangeByList.applescript
--This data file is tab-delimited, with carriage returns separating records.
--The format of each record in the file is:
--findType<tab>findProperties<tab>changeProperties<tab>findChangeOptions<tab>description
--Where:
--<tab> is a tab character
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--findProperties is a properties record (as text) of the find preferences.
--changeProperties is a properties record (as text) of the change preferences.
--findChangeOptions is a properties record (as text) of the find/change options.
--description is a description of the find/change operation
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--More complex example:
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text {find what:""} {change to:"^S"} {include footnotes:true, include master pages:true, include hidden layers:true, whole word:false} Find all bold and replace with non-breaking space.
text {find what:""} {change to:"^S"} {include footnotes:true, include master pages:true, include hidden layers:true, whole word:false} Find all italics and replace with non-breaking space.

You probably should post this in the ID Scripting forum. Here's an example of some simple AppleScript find and changes that might help:
--find and replace keyboard formating
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5"
 --first clear the preferences
 set find text preferences to nothing
 set change text preferences to nothing
 --replaces non breaking space with space
 set find what of find text preferences to "^s"
 set change to of change text preferences to "<0020>"
 set myFoundItems to change text
 --replaces soft return with return
 set find what of find text preferences to "^n"
 set change to of change text preferences to "^p"
 set myFoundItems to change text
 --replaces return space with return
 set find what of find text preferences to "^p<0020>"
 set change to of change text preferences to "^p"
 set myFoundItems to change text
 --replaces 2 returns with return
 set find what of find text preferences to "^p^p"
 set change to of change text preferences to "^p"
 set myFoundItems to change text
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 set find what of find text preferences to "^p^t^p"
 set change to of change text preferences to "^p"
 set myFoundItems to change text
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 set find what of find text preferences to "<0020>^p"
 set change to of change text preferences to "^p"
 set myFoundItems to change text
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 set change to of change text preferences to "<0020>"
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 set find what of find text preferences to "^t^t^t"
 set change to of change text preferences to "^t"
 set myFoundItems to change text
 --replaces 2 tabs with tab
 set find what of find text preferences to "^t^t"
 set change to of change text preferences to "^t"
 set myFoundItems to change text
end tell

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