Indesign - sorting tables or find/change commands
Hi there!
I don't think this is possible in Indesign but here is my question:
I have sorted a list of product names, numbers, prices in a table in the order they have to be in. (See 1. picture)
My question is: Are there any commands to tell indesign to sort a list after a another list/table? (See 2. picture)
I hope you understand!
2.
This might help:
http://dtptools.com/product.asp?id=atid
Bob
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Find/Change command! Me again!
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Any GREP style og text style for this, see the picture.
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HELP!Sorry for the confusion.
First, you need to set either a character-aligned tab or a right-aligned tab where you want the | to appear in your cell.
You do this by setting the tab position in the paragraph style assigned to the text in the cells. Once that tab is set, your | will appear at that position when we are done.
Next it seems we need to explicitily put the first tab into the string, as well as the right indent tab, so we need to find all the text leading up to the | and put a tab in front of it, then the space after, then find the | and insert the right indent tab after.
If you have an empty cell and tab into it and start typing, your text will use any tab character that is set in the paragraph style, but you don't have that situation, so it's necessary to add the initial tab to your existing text string as well as to add the spaces around the | and get the second number right aligned. You do that in one operation using the GREP query (which looks like it didn't come through well) from above:
Find (.+)(\|)
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Change \t$1~>$2~y (in case the form messes it up again, that's "dollar sign 1 tilde "greater than sign" [from over the period on the keyboard] dollar sign 2 tilde y")
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Woodlands (ve) Indian. Weekend buffet. 4078 Jermantown Road. (703) 385-1996. M–F 11:30am–10pm, Sa 11:30am–10pm, Su 11:30 am–9:30pm.
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http://forums.adobe.com/message/3856456#3856456
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[AS] CS3 Find -Change inserting soft return instead of hard
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
set include locked stories for find of find change grep options to false
set include master pages of find change grep options to false
--delete multiple graphs
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set change grep preferences to nothing
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Jim -
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Please helpThere is no such code.
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FIND _
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Thanks!… We always think to search what we don't want to keep ! but sometimes it's easier to find what we want to keep !
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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.
1. Last month I searched through the Help in the Numbers application and did not find a solution.
2. Last month I posted my question to another user group that I belong to and no one could answer because they stated they did not have that much experience with Numbers.
3. Tonight I tried the application's Help, but still no answers.
4. Tonight I decided to give Apple Discussions a try. I searched 'Find/Change' under Numbers and received 113 hits. I read every single one of the posts. While none spoke directly about changing 'Dates', I tried the items discussed such as changing to text 360, making changes, then back to numeric, but this did not work for me either.
5. I tried changing my dates to all the various formats and again, no effects.
6. And during all my attempts I also tried the various options (next, find and replace, replace, etc.) alone or in combinations.
7. I came back to the Apple Discussions and posted my question.
And regarding the way I posted my question, I felt I should post a new Topic under Numbers since Dates was not part of the 113 discussions on Find/Change. Also, since the original question was different than mine I felt I might "get in trouble" for posting within that discussion. I see I was wrong, so yes, my newbie status of 2 posts is my excuse. -
Where are the files stored which you saved in the Find/Change window.
I can't find them in the Preset folder.And for Mac:
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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) -
Finished script: Use grep find/change to fill in a supplied table of contents
This script is now complete, and has been the subject of most of my previous posts. Just in case anyone wanted to know what the finished script ended as, here it is.
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.
Cheers,
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Task:
Automatically find town names in listings, and fill in table of contents template on page 2 accordingly.
Example of page 2 toc, initially:
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:
Because of the need to include the transaction dates on the TOC (comes as a provided, tagged-text file), a simple Indesign-generated TOC can't be used alone.
This script uses an Indesign-generated TOC that's on a master page called "T-tocGen" ... It then uses grep search and replaces to grab the needed information, and insert it into the page 2 TOC.
The script will update a generated TOC and then search for an instance of a page number, and town name. The generated toc lists all included towns in the following format:
(line start)## tab townName(line end)
In Grep, this would be (please note, extra \ for \d and \t ... javascript needs that for some reason):
^\\d+\\t(.*)$
After the script gets the info it needs from a found instance of the above, it replaces that line with "---", to prevent that line from being picked up once again.
The script with then place the needed page number in it's rightful place on page 2, replacing the XX.
A while loop is used to repeat the above process until there are no longer any instances of "^\\d+\\t(.*)$" present.
Not every town runs every issue, so once the script is done, it removes all remaining instance of "XX" on the page 2 TOC.
FINAL CODE:
TOC replace
This script will use grep find/change methods to apply page numbers in
tocGen to the XX's on page2TOC.
// define the text frame of generated TOC
var tocGenFrame = document.masterSpreads.item("T-tocGen").pages.item(0).textFrames.item(0);
// udpate generated TOC ... store contents in tocGenStuff
var tocGenStuff = updateTOCGen();
// set variable for while loop
var okGo = "1";
// while okGo isn't 0
while(okGo.length!=0)
// get town info from tocGen
getCurrentTown();
// replace XX's with tocGen info
replaceTown();
// grep find ... any remaining towns with page numbers in tocGen?
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "^\\d+\\t(.*)$";
// set current value of okGo ... with any instances of above grep find in tocGen
okGo = tocGenFrame.findGrep();
// grep find/change all leftover XXs in page2TOC
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "^XX\\t";
app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = "\\t";
app.activeDocument.changeGrep();
// clear grep prefs
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
// functions //
function getCurrentTown()
// grep options
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeLockedLayersForFind = true;
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeLockedStoriesForFind = true;
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeHiddenLayers = true;
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeMasterPages = true;
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeFootnotes = true;
// grep find: startLine anyDigits tab anyCharacters endLine
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "^\\d+\\t(.*)$";
// get grep find results
currentGen = tocGenFrame.findGrep();
// store grep results content into currentLine
currentLine = currentGen[0].contents;
// match to get array of grep found items
currentMatch = currentGen[0].contents.match("^\\d+\\t(.*)$");
// second found item is town name, store as currentTown
currentTown = currentMatch[1];
// change current line to --- now that data has been grabbed
// this is because loop will continue as long as the above grep find yields a result
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "^\\d+\\t"+currentTown+"$";
app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = "---";
tocGenFrame.changeGrep();
function replaceTown()
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeLockedLayersForFind = true;
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeLockedStoriesForFind = true;
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeHiddenLayers = true;
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeMasterPages = true;
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeFootnotes = true;
// find: XX currentTown .... replace with: currentLine
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "^XX\\t"+currentTown+" \\(";
app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = currentLine+" \(";
app.activeDocument.changeGrep();
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var tocGen = document.masterSpreads.item("T-tocGen").pages.item(0).textFrames.item(0);
var tocGenPage = document.masterSpreads.item("T-tocGen").pages.item(0);
//SELECT the text frame generatedTOC on the master TOC
tocGen.select();
//Update Table of Contents by script menu action:
app.scriptMenuActions.itemByID(71442).invoke();
//Deselect selection of text frame holding your TOC:
app.select(null);
//store contents of toc text frame in variable
var tocGenText = tocGen.contents;
//return contents of tocGen
return tocGenText;Thanks for the reply.
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Hello! I need help to find all my item numbers and apply a paragraph style to it so I can use them to create a Table of Contents page.
Sample item numbers
#12345
#12345-5
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#12345-ABC
#12345/N
I tried entering #^?^?^?^?^? on the Find/Change box and but this will find exactly the 5 characters after the # sign. I wonder if you can find all characters starting with # and until the last characters.
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628 ENDLOOP.
629
630 * Bind the category key-value pair to the context attribute.
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632 EXPORTING
633 name = 'CATEGORY_LIST'
634 value_set = lt_key_values.
635
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637 CALL METHOD lo_node->set_attribute
638 EXPORTING
639 value = '00000000'
640 name = 'CATEGORY_LIST'.
641
642 ENDMETHOD.
643
644 method GET_EMPLOYEES.
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from the error what I understood is lt_key_values is a sorted table and you are trying append a new line to it. Incase of sorted table you need to use the INSERT statement and not the APPEND statement.
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