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In search of trying to make my workflow much more efficient, I've been dabbling with grep styles and have come across an obstacle. This may be a limit to the character style features but I have been trying to find ways to use multiple text alignments (i.e. left, justified, right) within a single paragraph style sheet applied over multiple paragraphs. Is this actually possible with GREP or similar or do I just have my head in the clouds?
If this was actually possible in Character Styles, I could quite possible make my job a wee bit too easy!!
Hope you can assist me with this issue.
Cheers.

Alignment is a paragraph level attribute, not a character level attribute, and therefor is assigned in the paragraph style. A paragraph can have only one alignment setting. GREP styles can only assign a character style, so cannot change alignment.
You could, however, use Find/Change with GREP to find a pattern and assign a pragraph style or new alignment, you just can't automate it the way you do with a GREP style.

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