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.

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do this once per FM file. If you really need the image file names
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> ..\..\..\Graphics Catalog A\Graphics\a000123.png
> ..\..\..\Graphics Catalog B\Graphics\b000123.png
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Thanks so much to all. A lot of really helpful folks on this board are very responsible for the success of this task. This script is to be one of hopefully many in the creation of our records. But it's a huge leap forward. Thanks again to everyone that helped.
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Automatically find town names in listings, and fill in table of contents template on page 2 accordingly.
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Example of a page of content. The town names are what need to be referenced on the TOC:
Example of page 2 toc once script is finished:
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^\\d+\\t(.*)$
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TOC replace
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Thanks for the reply.
You are correct but the problem is there are three rows, One row is 100% black, the second is 60% black and the third is 40% black. I want to change the black to blue, the 60% black to an orange and the 40% black to a light shaded blue. In the find/change option you can select the tint you want to find and replace but yea.. does work on table cells.. oddly enough.

Find/change using end of paragraph marker /p

Folks,
We are attempting to remove a space at the end of a paragraph in unstructured documents. If I enter ' \p' in the Find text field in the Find/Change dialog FrameMaker finds the the appropriate paragraphs. If I then enter '\p' in the Change text field in the Find/Change dialog and click Change the space is removed. However the target paragraphs style is also applied to the the following paragraph. This occurs in FrameMaker 8,9 & 10.
If the Find/Change scenario above is followed with these two paragraphs the first paragraphs style is applied to the second paragraph.
paragraph 1 with a trailing space and using Heading 1 style
paragraph 2 using Heading 2 style
Any thoughts?
regards
Jon

JonEBe wrote:
Arnis,
Thanks!
Yes why bother indeed! I am at the end of a rather lengthy process to convert the creation and output of Framemaker documents into a database with a web front end. As part of this the existing documents are imported to save lengthy keying/rekeying. The output from the system is then compared against the originals. As a matter of course I stripped of leading or trailing spaces (it is amazing how many there are in a manually created/updated document) so we therefore have noisy comparison documents as a result.
BTW the trailing spaces are apparently a legacy of the conversion from WordPerfect.
My choices are to re-import without stripping the trailing space and remove them at a later date or create a script using the FDK, which I am very familiar with, and is the likely outcome!
Jon
Just a wild thought - a real GREP processor, not the mild imitation in FrameMaker, can find a construction like a space followed by a paragraph marker and delete the space without affecting the marker. The technique is a form of the "lookbehind" or "lookahead" feature. I'm zero-skilled at actually doing this beyond just mentioning it, but the technique might work in a MIF, or text conversion, of the file. Search Google for terms like "GREP lookbehind lookahead," without quotes.
Another possibility is that once the FrameMaker file is converted to the database, it would be possible to use a database command to remove the space.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
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How to use Find Change to add FC in front of all item numbers?

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I am using Indesign CS5 on iMac, running OS 10.8.3.
I designed a product catalog that has 148 pages. Now I need to save the same design and make a new catalog for our wholesalers. On the wholesalers catalog I need to change the item numbers and add FC in front of each item number. How can I use find change to find each item and change them with FC in front of the item numbers? The following are a few examples of the item numbers:
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... the Replace With stays the same.

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I'm don't write scripts but do 'enjoy' copying, pasting and changing existing code/txt files.
I have built a GREP find/change .txt that performs a large number of text edits/changes.
But I'm left with an issue where I have paragraphs of text (styled earlier in the .txt file) that I'm unable to identify using GREP the usual way. I need to identify text in a particular paragraph style, followed by text in another paragraph style.
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MTIA Steve

seb400 napisał(-a):
What do you mean by I would mark "changing" in "copying, pasting and changing"?
Hi Steve,
I mean I can see a way by modifying some existing code with "find...change" job
1. set criteria to findGrep
2. store findGrep() in an array
3. check each found object if next paragraph matches some new criteria
4. run changeGrep() if true
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Is there a way to find/change the font of numericals only, within a document in indesign?

Is there a way to find/change the font of numericals only, within a document in indesign?

It might not be what you need for this document, but if you were creating it from scratch, a GREP style would probably be the way to go. That way, new figures added to the text will automatically be styled the way you like.
Start with a base Paragraph Style (i.e. 'Body') that all subsequent styles ('Heading' etc) are based on. Select a figure, and apply the font and any other attributes required. Select it and make a new Character Style. In your Paragraph Style, go to GREP Styles, and set it to apply the Character Style to the 'Any Digit' Wildcard.

Applescript find/change problem

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"}
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--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
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--changeProperties is a properties record (as text) of the change preferences.
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--text {find what:"--"} {change to:"^_"} {include footnotes:true, include master pages:true, include hidden layers:true, whole word:false} Find all double dashes and replace with an em dash.
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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
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 set find what of find text preferences to "^n"
 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<0020>"
 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^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
 --replaces space, space with space
 set find what of find text preferences to "<0020><0020>"
 set change to of change text preferences to "<0020>"
 set myFoundItems to change text
 --replaces 3 tabs with tab
 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
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 set find what of find text preferences to "^t^t"
 set change to of change text preferences to "^t"
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end tell

JS:CS3 Newbie needs help! find/change character styles

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.
Is there a way we can search for the tag and bold everything after it up until the tag? Sort of the way it does for html (the way it would do for this message if I took out the spaces). It'll be great if it could remove the tags as well, but if not, I know I could create a find/change script to do the removal afterwards.
I appreciate any input.
Thanks!

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';
// make the changes
app.activeDocument.changeGrep();
// now delete the and codes
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '</?b>';
app.changeGrep();
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

Find/Change Grep only finds one instance per paragraph, where am I going wrong?

Hi,
I've been using a Find/Change Grep to find any price with a comma and change that comma to a thin space (Newspaper's editorial style).
But the Grep only finds the first instance of this per paragraph.
Sample text...
"$200,000 $200,000 $200,000.
text at start of paragraph $200,000
$200,000 text at end of paragraph
tab $200,000."
In the sample the grep would miss the second and third price on the first line.
I've been using...
Find...
(?<=\$)(\d{3})\,?(\d{3})
also tried (\$\d{3})\,?(\d{3})
Change to...
$1~<$2
Is there anything I can add to find these last two prices?
I've been using this in combination with Batch Find Replace script, so different greps are set up for 5,6 and 7 digit numbers that start with $.
Thanks.

Try this,
Find what: (?<=\x{0024})(\d{3})\,?(\d{3})
Change to: $1~<$2
Vandy

Find/Change words (with GREP) and apply a style...

I need a Script for Find/Change words with GREP, and apply a paragraph style...
Thanks...

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).
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Finally run FindChangeByList.jsx to make all changes in one go.
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