Inserting a special character with GREP styles

Hi.
I wanna define a GREP style that makes this: if I write Bluetooth I wanna that a registered trademark is added at the end of the word but with superscript format. Is it possible?
Thanks in advance.

No, GREP styles only apply formatting, they cannot insert characters. Use a regular find & change to do so.
(There is a thinking-outside-of-the-box solution. If you have access to a font creating utility, you can create a character 'h' with TM attached to it. Then you can use a GREP style to automatically apply this custom font to just the 'h' of 'Bluetooth'. See http://indesignsecrets.com/insert-a-special-character-with-grep-styles.php.)

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Well, yeah, but in that sense it's not that different from other stylesheets I have. (For all journals I make, I have at least one "current" updated template.)
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Hi all,
I came across a non keyboard character in an Oracle table (9i) and when i queried the table column with the following query
Code:
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\FFFD
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Just not possible. Whatever I tried I never could get back what I inserted:
C:\temp>set NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8MSWIN1252
C:\temp>sqlplus user/passwd@dev
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.2.0 - Production on Mon May 14 16:42:53 2007
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All Rights Reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.6.0 - 64bit Production
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JServer Release 9.2.0.6.0 - Production
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SQL> COLUMN a format a30
SQL> COLUMN a1 format 99999
SQL> COLUMN a2 format a10
SQL> COLUMN parameter format a15
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SQL> SELECT * FROM NLS_DATABASE_PARAMETERS WHERE PARAMETER IN ('NLS_CHARACTERSET
','NLS_TERRITORY','NLS_LANGUAGE')
2 /
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NLS_TERRITORY    AMERICA
NLS_CHARACTERSET WE8MSWIN1252
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2 /
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2 /
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2 /
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SQL>
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2 /
A                                  A1 A2
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Hello Am trying to insert a special characcter "ƒ" but its not taking

Hello all ,
Help is greatly appreciated.
Am trying to insert a special character for currency symbol -"ƒ". Below is my insert statement.
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¿ SQL Developer 3      Typ=1 Len=2: 0,191
ƒ SQL Developer 4      Typ=1 Len=2: 1,146
SQL*PLUS 1           Typ=1 Len=2: 0,159
SQL*PLUS 2           Typ=1 Len=2: 0,159
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         X
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COMMIT;You don't get what you might expect
SELECT v,who,DUMP(v) FROM t_varchar;
V WHO                  DUMP(V)
¿ SQL Developer 1      Typ=1 Len=2: 0,191
¿ SQL Developer 2      Typ=1 Len=2: 0,191
¿ SQL Developer 3      Typ=1 Len=2: 0,191
¿ SQL Developer 4      Typ=1 Len=2: 0,191Regards
Marcus
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