Locked text frame (find/replace)

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• object contains no text for find/replace

  I am trying to run this script to select text if it is found, but he said that there is no text, even though I have wrapped them in an if statement.

  See section function () {}

  app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;

  app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "the (section\\s +?). \\d+ ? [ \\.\\d+]?)";

  app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = "$1";

  The app.changeGrepPreferences reference .appliedCharacterStyle = "cross";

  If (app.activeDocument.findText ()) {}

  found. Select();

  };

  var changes1 = app.activeDocument.changeGrep ();

  If {(changes1.length===1)}

  Alert (changes1.length + "instance of 'the section' became 'article'.");

  } else {}

  Alert (changes1.length + "instances of 'the section' changed to 'section'.");

  }

  };

  Your message to find/replace script highlight found text is not the same question?

• How find specific text in a text frame, and then replace it?

  Hello

  I am currently using InDesign CC, specially the script part, for updating a price list for my company.

  I have a table that contains all of the blocks of text in my document. A page use a block of text. I want to go through all these text block, find a Word and then replace it with the word I want.

  Example: The line, in a text frame that contains several line, ' CAR56974 - $14.95 "must be the change of ' CAR56974 - $ 18.66»

  I want to find this line in all my text frames, and then replace it with the new line.

  I looked in the forums but cannot find an answer for my problem specfic.

  Here's how to get all my text blocks:

  var allTextFrames = myDoc.textFrames;

  for (var i = 0; i < allTextFrames.length; i ++) {}

  TF = allTextFrames [i];

  }

  Thanks in advance!

  Olivier

  EDIT: I use JavaScript.

  Hi Oliver,.

  Can the underside of coding work for you.

  app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = null;
  
  app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "CAR56974 - $14.95";
  
  app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = "CAR56974 - $18.66";
  
  app.activeDocument.changeText();
  

  Thank you

  Beginner_X

• Find/replace preference - include locked, locked layer the objects (Find only)

  Hi all

  I was wondering if anyone can help, I'm trying to make sure that the option "Include Locked layers and objects locked (research only)" on the box search/replace is active when the script below is executed because when it is disabled the text find/replace does not check locked layers and objects.

  In InDesign this icon located in the Find/Replace dialog box, a little less the "search:" drop down menu, icon of the left hand.

  Replace the text "Page Type"

  app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.NOTHING;

  app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "Page Type";

  {found = app.activeDocument.findText () [i] = "STET".silence ;}

  Any help would be great thanks, Brendan

  app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.NOTHING;

  app.findChangeTextOptions.includeLockedLayersForFind = true;

  app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "Page Type";

  {found = app.activeDocument.findText () [i] = "STET".silence ;}

• conditional text find/replace problem

  Hello!

  For a few hours, I'm trying to solve this case: I want to apply conditions (conditional text) to all paragraphs according to the name of the applied style. So, for example, text with paragraph called "BODY" style should have "BODY" of the conditional text etc. I figured out mechanism, but I can't solve the problem with passing to find/replace.

  Here is my code:

  (function() {
      if (app.documents.length > 0) {
          processDocument(app.documents[0]);
      }
      function processDocument(aDoc) {
          var paraStyles = aDoc.allParagraphStyles.sort();
          for (var j = 0; paraStyles.length > j; j++) {
              var currentStyle = paraStyles[j].name;
              if(aDoc.conditions.item (currentStyle) == null){
                  var varConditions = aDoc.conditions.add({name: currentStyle});
              }
              doFindChange(currentStyle);
          }
      }
  }())
  function doFindChange(currentStyle) {
      app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
      
      app.findGrepPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = currentStyle;
      app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedConditions = currentStyle;
      
      app.activeDocument.changeGrep();
  }
  

  I know what's wrong, but I have no idea how to change.

  Could someone help me?

  Thanks in advance!

  You have some problems in the code:

  1 move the actual paragraph style (and not just its name) to findGrepPreferences (your variable, currentStyle is a string, although this can work, it is better [especially for paragraph in the groups styles] to adopt the paragraph style real itself).

  2. Ditto for the appliedCondition: give changeGrepPreferences the condition itself, not just its name.

  3. it seems that changeGrepPreferences.appliedConditions expects a range of disorders, then give him a table even if it has only one member.

  Ariel

• Moving a text box automatically using find/replace?

  I have a text box containing the given text (for example "Hello-hello12"), through several separate documents. I want to move this text box make a different location on the page of all these documents. Is it possible to do in bulk? I looked in the search/replace option, but could not find a way to do over there. I use CS6 if it matters.

  Thank you!

  It does however find/replace, but maybe the script though. Ask above in InDesign Scripting

• Find block of text frames in the document

  Hi all

  I created the 30 page document, it contains the two frames of threaded related texts and No threaded frames of related texts. I have to write script tool to find UN threaded text frames and anchor to the next to go down with the content frame.

  Any help will be greatly appreciated.

  Thanks in advance

  Hello

  I don't know what specific solution can be found using ID 2014 CC features in the user interface, but a generic way might be to create a function and call it for each page of a doc. The function would be:

  • collect all pageItems (table)
  • Sort by geometricBounds [0] value (ascending)
  • Browse and:
  1. each active element of time is that a girl textFrame ==> placed his last PointInsertion as a destination
  2. otherwise ==> Miller point in current destination (not sure if original visibleBounds are essential to be copied)

  It assumes that the order of the pageItems can rely on its superior position.

  Jarek

• Find/replace for text formatting

  Hi guys,.

  How to use find/replace for text formatting changes? I would like to change a text of entire book to try an another typographical options. The book is currently typed in text of Lyon. The problem is when I change to Sabon will make it overides the italics and the word "BOLD".

  I tried to find/display

  Search

  Lyon text regular italic

  Change

  Sabon italic

  

  but it does not work. Most of the text of this book is not formatted with the character to italic Style, for example, just a paragraph Style General to make it easier to work with.

  What I am doing wrong? Any help or ideas?

  
  Thank you!

  All of the text has a paragraph style that applies the formatting of basis for the whole paragraph. ALL text that deviates from the General formatting of the paragraph should have a style of character applied somehow, either directly, or as a nested or style GREP, which overrides the formatting of paragraph and gives what you want. The paragraph styles that do not change the font family are much more useful, for example a style that just changing the text in italics, as they continue to work when you change the font family of the paragraph style in the basic text format section.

  Character styles are used ONLY to change the part of the text in a paragraph. If the paragraph has the same formatting, it should have a paragraph set for this format style.

• Find + replace text (string constant) does not work for screw Statechart module

  Hello

  I tried to do a mass find + replace a string in my code. Using Ctrl + F, LabVIEW 2012 correctly locates all the places where this string exists, including within the States transitions guards who have paths in this form:

  XYZ.lvsciagram.vi / Transition: Guard - diagram, Transition, data/part

  However, when I've specified that a replacement string, then click on 'Replace all', only 'normal' instances of screws replaced - instances in my diagrams had not changed.

  What is going on? Is there anything else I need to do?

  Thanks in advance.

  Looks like those that does not include how to find and replace is implemented in LabVIEW. You can try to replace just the statechart and see if that makes a difference, but it may simply not work.

• Find/replace, highlight found text script

  Hello

  I wrote this script and it works fine. But what I want to do is to go through each word found individually (as in the Find/Replace dialog box with the button "find next").

  This is an excerpt:

  app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = null;
  var what = app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "ensure";

  app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = "make" sure;
  var found = app.activeDocument.changeText ();
  If {(found.length = 1)
  Alert (found.length + "instance of"ensuring"changed");
  } else {}
  Alert (found.length + "instances of"ensuring"changed");
  }

  I want the script to each instance of "ensure" my active selection that I can see where they are before I change.

  Thank you

  Hi guys,.

  try this one:

  app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = null;
  app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "ensure";
  app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = "make sure";
  
  var allFounds = app.activeDocument.findText();
  for (var i = 0; i < allFounds.length; i++) {
    var curFound = allFounds[i];
    curFound.select();
    app.layoutWindows[0].zoomPercentage = app.layoutWindows[0].zoomPercentage;
     if(confirm("Do you wish to change this instance?",undefined, "Find/Replace")) {
       curFound.changeText();
    }
  }
  
  app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = null;
  

  Disadvantage of the confirm dialog box: there is no exit button.

• Why I can't get a hit with the find/replace glyphs palette. Faces of fonts checked.

  

  I received a copy (word doc) with a table using glyphs Sq Root in place and place check marks. Looking to find replace but GREP and text can't seem to manage the ROOT SQUARE or check MARK glyphs. If the glyphs tab of course right?

  Providing I still exact characters corresponding and no delicate Adobe fonts not anchored object with font substitution, that I can't seem to make a match with the glyph of the SQUARE ROOT.

  No idea why? Attack from a previous thread on my confusion even find these glyphs of fonts that appear to contain them who do not.

  Hey thanks for this tip, I've seen this kind of keyboard shortcuts commands, but never thought to use it in this situation. It turns out that, because the glyph is in a table , I need to set the "Include locked layers and locked objects (FindOnly)" even if the layer is not locked, I suppose that the tables are "locked" per class.

  

• Find/replace width size object

  Hi guys,.

  So here's the problem:

  I have a long catalog of over 900 pages and I slightly modified a textframe to options and other styles of object, but bottomline, it is that now I have to change the width of executives of texts related to 62 mm (now 61 mm). «I tried the options of ' object ' find/replace, but I can't find the right way to do it.» It is even possible to do with the object search/replace? I have to change manually linked texts more than 6,000 executives if it doesn't work :/

  I have to do it with Grep script and how is this possible if I have to do with it?

  

  Thanks in advance if you answer to this problem!

  HA!

  I found the solution (ish), basically, it is possible to change the dimensions of the object with the object of "find/replace". Bart Van de Wiele thanks for the trick of "fixed-width columns.

  1. ." Find the Format of the object"-> what type of object style" "you are looking for and then put 'Text block Options'-> width (exp. 55 mm)
  2. "Changing the Format of the object"-> go to "Text frame General Options"-> "columns: fixed width '-> width (exp. 56 mm, I have 3 mm inset spacing left & right 56 + 6 is 62 mm).
  3. Change desired linked text frames, BUT you have this kind of problem where you can't change the sizes of width of executives related because they are "fixed size".
  4. Click on one of the frames of linked text changed and go to 'Options of Style' where you get that "+" - sign. Click on the options 'clear the replacements '.
  5. Now you have changed all you want linked text frames, and you can change the width too.

  

• Disappeared from the Find/Replace dialog box

  Hello. Find/replace is not dimmed, but the dialog box won't appear on the screen. Does anyone have a solution? Thank you!

  InDesign CC 2015.1 (Build 11.1.0.122).

  OSX 10.10.5 Mac Pro (mid-2012)

  I just removed the search panel and change plug-in in the plug-ins folder of text and then dragged it back to the and who brought. Thanks for your time, Steve.

• GREP find/replace + paragraph Styles

  Hello

  I'm editing a long document and have benefited from the assistance of the community already, but being new GREP Style, find/replace, I need to ask for additional help.

  Below a screenshot of the script (original). Two blocks of text you see anticipated by the icons have have styles of different paragraphs. Icons are placed like custom glyphs.

  Now, the last line with C2, 9, 14,... is the target of this post. They are buses of London and I created a paragraph with another icon. The copy that I work with unfortunately is as you see. Buses will follow «;»

  Resulting to place a \r after the semicolon and assign the new paragraph style. The item to work with is (probably) the last "," before the registration of the bus. All entries have it in the same way, where a search/replace global grep should work fine.

  My attempts:

  I used of a previous debate (? < =------;)) [^ ;] + $ to match everything from the end until the last semicolon, but then I found the problem preserving the matched characters and placing \r (using the (? < =-;). start at the beginning and stops at each point comma + space)

  So question: how to stop at the first semicolon at the end and replace the space with \r to create a new paragraph?

  Then, it is two question :-)

  From my previous attempts, I noticed that when you replace the semicolon + space with \r, and change the style of paragraph at a time (from Rail to Bus) caused the Rail paragraph style change (logic) to the style of Bus. So I tried to say the paragraph style of the track "Following paragraph Style is style of Bus" (and not to change the paragraph style in find/replace), but in a way that no longer works.

  Second question is: given to split the find/replace in two steps, how then transform / apply to newly created paragraph the correct style of Bus?

  Thank you in advance for your valuable assistance. So far, the community has been great!

  Antonio

  Original

  

  Result for

  

  Hi Antonio,.

  If I understand correctly, in 2 regex [1 click play with Multi/find-replace our friend Martinho da Gloria]:

  

  

• InDesign CC Grep find/replace to replace the character of space per paragraph (fly)

  Hello InDesigners,

  I'm trying to clean up a 99 page document. In the file, titles of chapters, in capital letters, followed by a space, which is then followed with text more uppercase there. This always occurs at the beginning of a paragraph.

  I'm trying to target the space character that appears just after the number of chapter and Exchange to a number (fly).

  For example:

  
  

  CHAPTER 22 SUNDAY UNDERGROUND

  I want the Grep to change this as follows:

  CHAPTER 22

  SUNDAY UNDERGROUND

  I know that to do this job, I need to use positive look behind and positive Look Ahead, at first, I just tried to isolate CHAPTER 22 using the following:

  ^ \u{2,}\s\d+

  It worked. However, as soon as I cut and paste into P.L.B., find/replace says that it does not match.

  (?<=^\u{2,}\s\d+)\s

  
  

  The culprit seems to be the comma that comes just after the number 2. If I take, I get a match, but just not the one I wanted.

  
  

  Why P.L.B. does not accept the comma as part of the range in my definition grep?
  

  
  

  (FYI, I prefer to use wildcards with a specified scope, rather than literal text).

  It is indeed the comma, and the reason why it does not work because the flavor of InDesign's GREP does not allow a variable length argument in its lookbehinds. And the construction "has {x, y}" indicates a variable length.

  "Chapter" only you know how many characters to uppercase, and even the exact text, you can use

  (?<=^CHAPTER>

  the first chapters to a number, then

  (?<=^CHAPTER>

  for the rest. In your version of InDesign, I guess there is also a possible solution with the fairly new \K "forget - me" operator but I have not yet enough experience with that. It should look like this:

  ^ \u{2,}\s\d+\K\s

  but you will have to experiment a bit to see how to work with the replacement string.

  In addition, you should only use the name of "fly" for a character that looks like this: "¶". The code that you insert will call it a 'return' or 'paragraph return. Initially, I took your question literally, and it sounded as if you were after this result: "CHAPTER 22 ¶ SUNDAY UNDERGROUND"